Letters to Hope

The Journal of Isis Elfman for Her Daughter, Hope

Notebooks Full of Random Thoughts and Turmoil

January 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Advice

My best friend Jenna has an eight-year-old daughter named Venus. I’m sure you and Venus will come to know each other very well. Venus is at a very difficult stage in her life.

I know how hard being eight is. I remember I felt like I was going insane. And no one understood me. I remember sassing back to my mom and being rude and throwing temper tantrums and freaking out over the smallest thing.

I remember thinking my mom was torturing me by not letting me have what I wanted or by telling me to do certain things that I did not want to do. I remember the struggle that my mom and I had at eight and also as a teenager.

I know and am preparing myself in having to deal with these types of issues with you. I know it will be hard and I know I will yell at you and you will think I am torturing you.

Not The Only One With These Feelings

I know you will think that you are the ONLY ONE our there feeling like you do. And this is very normal.

I hope you are a writer so that you can write all those feelings down. So later on you can look at them and realize how important they where at the time but how trivial they are now that you are older.

I have notebooks filled with random thoughts and turmoil. One day I will give them to you so you can realize we all go through these torturous times. It is all a part of becoming the person you are now.

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