I woke up and I wasn't 7 anymore.

you wake up and you aren't 7 anymore

[LunaleeeeStraykids-Forever]

You can really see the pain in her eyes. Slowly throughout the video it looks as if they gain tears 😢

[AdelaideSwan-qrct]

I'm only 14 and this hits home. The past couple of years feel non-existent, and I just wish I could go back to when I was a little kid

[Pookie.slimes]

This has me crying I could see the pain in her eyes as she was reading it. I’m only 12 but I still feel old and wish I could go back to when I was younger.. 😔

[cloudyloudly]

I woke up and I wasn’t a child anymore.

But was I ever a child?

The days passed in a blur with no friends and family to count on and just a feeling of obligation or else. Always. What little trust I had completely died in the face of knowing my father and aunt only love each other and no one else. I have no one to trust and only one to love—my brother—but even that feels conditional because of his level one autism.

Seeing this video feels like at least people had a childhood they remembered faintly. I don’t remember mine, all I have are the memories of playing on technology—that’s it.

[Wednesday_Mgan]

As a 12 year old i can relate so if ur ypunger and reading this pls do wht u want and never waste a moment of ur time cause ull realize tgis when ur my age

[blokhed]

I really needed this today. Espically the "when it feels to hard to get through the day."

[IzabellaMoore-pz]

She never fails to make me want to cry 🙏🏽

[AutumnBanks-rf]

Im currently 10 years old and the part with parents got me. Im so scared of the point when I look at my dad and all I see is just a man I know, rather than the person I love most and my hero.

[Art_and_stuff_]

0:01 watching this at 12:30 AM, alone in my room just hits different. I’m crying.. I miss the better days, I want to go back, to when the sent of my mom was all the comfort I needed

[SumZi_Snaps]

Not sure why I keep watching these, I'm teetering on the edge as it is... Maybe part of me finds it comforting that we're not as alone as we feel.

[actually_a.j]

the day that i woke up and realized that i wasn’t a kid anymore was the day i woke up in a hospital, figuring out i have type one diabetes. a lifelong disease that’s both a financial burden and a physical one, i’m reminded every day of it by the small rectangle of metal and plastic tubing that sits constantly on the hem of my pants/shorts and blares annoying alarms at me when i’m “out of range”

[dlynch]

I may still be a kid, but I’ve seen, heard, and been through a lot. My friends became toxic, I’m stuck in a family fight, the only motivation I have for waking up each morning is school, there’s nowhere to escape, home isn’t an option, neither is school. I have to stay in my room, draining in my music, hoping I can get more than 5 minutes of remorse. I may only be in 6th grade, but I don’t want to grow up just yet. I wanted to stay young, stay with the nostalgia that now brings me tears. I know my dad isn’t coming back, and I hate him for that, but I can’t help that little light in me, that always stays on, hoping, and loving everyone, no matter how much I get walked on.

[abigailbdiary]

This is so well written. I hate growing up. There’s so many good things but thinking that I’m almost a junior and will be an adult in two years is so scary.

[CDragolovich]

When it didn’t feel like a battle just to get through the day that line is very true

[emmamarchesan]

This made me cry it's so beautiful

[chavalamerit]

I'm 12 this made me cry I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna see my parents age I'm scared to go out into the world.

[TaLore__lei]

this video is really sad, no one can deny that. but there's also some magic in growing up. Even though you do get more responsibility and, well, you DO lose part of yourself, you also find someone new. Someone that's able to explore on their own, someone that's able to become a parent and teach your child what you didn't know in the past. To help make a better version of yourself but have more freedom to do so. You may lose yourself, wake up one day and realize you aren't 7 anymore, but you can also rephrase it to a positive mindset: To find a new, better, more matured and wiser version of yourself, wake up one day and realize you aren't 7 anymore, realize that you are, say, 27, and are able to experience a new part of life.
just thought id add some perspective to this :)

[pretty_fairy]

im 13 and i love my dad dearly. I never want to lose him and ever since my grandpa died, I hug everyone from my family tight hoping they wont be dead in the morning...

[maggieoscroft]

so scared of this, only 13 and it feels like my life has changed so dramatically the past 6 years. <3

[Greenlee-oi]

I saw someone else comment about their struggles so I decided to come here to tell you all.
don’t hold your breath this might take a while.
My dad is barely ever here he hasn’t faded into the recliner he’s just faded. My mom hates me and all she cares about is her job, making people happy and arguing with my grandma about things that she does herself. All she does is yell and fight with my dad when he is there, they listen to my sister and all those fake accusations my sister makes about herself turn out to be me. I have no real friends and the one I thought was a real friend just comes over to my house to hang out with my sister now. One of my friends hits me and it hurts but I don’t have the guts to tell her, my other friend doesn’t hang out with me and when she does she just ignores me. She talks about me behind my back, she spreads rumors, she tells people not to like me bc i’m me. I won a trophy for the most AR points in 180 days. If you don’t know what AR points are they are basically when you read books you get 0.5 points all the way to 10 points for each book you read. In second grade it was my first year doing AR and I got two hundred points. It all got blamed on how my mom was the principal. Nice. The boys in my class call me names and say that they want to do things to me that I can’t address on youtube, keep in mind I’m ten and in fifth grade. People have no idea how hard my life is, i’m kind to everyone and my friends still tell me I should unalive myself. They call me names like cuss words, i’ve been cussed out multiple times. I’ve been hit multiple times by either boys or my friends. I hate my life and even worse I hate myself. These worries have kept me to be someone that wasn’t myself for years, and i’m only ten. Love you all, good bye.