Personal Narrative: Bailey's Life

Everyone has a way to either open up or shut down. Youth, specifically high risk youth can be hard to break open the wall they put up with one another but not Bailey. Bailey is 11 years old, she is in the sixth grade and definitely acts older than she really is. When I first met Bailey her and I had an immediate connection. She was always telling me how complicated her life was. The first reaction most people have when we hear a child say they have a complicated life, we don’t really stop and listen to that feeling. For a youth interview I went over to see Bailey to actually get her thoughts and views on what she is going through today. We sat down at her house to talk and came across a lot of interesting thoughts and feeling of what young youth are going through today. The first topic was about herself and her friends at school. I asked her what was most important to kids her age today. Bailey first response “To fit in of course.” She describes that everyone wants to have the cutest and best clothes. Kids her …show more content…
Knowing that there are still some of the same issues that I worried about made me really sad to hear. I remembered growing up and always wanting to fit in, it was all about the clothes you wore. To hear a youth say she feels the same way made me realize that some things in our life do not change no matter how many years have gone by. Her world is just like mine as adult. We have families we are trying to stay close with and impress no matter what we think. We are still striving for goals, have to wake up every day and get the day going even if we do not want too. Our lives are more alike that I thought, and I learned we are still kids at heart. Youth are not as afraid to speak opinion, adults we think all the time what we should and should not say. I watched Bailey light up about her dreams, this is the same feeling I get when talking about my dreams of starting a