ENDENFIN's blog

LET THE BOYS... BE THE BOYS!

For some reason male nature has always been attracted to violence and to continously having to prove their strenght and abilities. It's a "power" thing that has been cheered through the years by society and even by parents.

Males have to fit in a "pattern": they have to be strong, able to stand to adversity and above all, they have to "prove" that they are MEN. Not complying with this profile, it is taken as a sign of weakness and among other things it could make them a target of cruel jokes. Sometimes, it could even create a false reputation that will chase them for the rest of their life, unless of course, they can prove their manhood.

Jena was 14 years old. Her mother will never understand what happened on her daughter's life, something so terrible, that pushed her to finish her own life. Two days ago, she was going to go to the mall with her friends one afternoon. She seemed very excited about it.

Her mother was happy too, Jena had been kind of quiet and sad lately, and she had occasionally complained about her appearance, nothing strange in a teenage girl. Who didn't feel unhappy sometimes with her body while going thought adolescence? However, Jena wasn't only experimenting those "natural" changes on her young life, she was also going through a hard time, being bullied by other kids at school, and constantly critized by one of her teachers. She had become the target of prank calls, and despite of this stress, Jena never told anyone about it, because she felt that no one really cared about her feelings. Jena was suffering of deep depression, the quiet killer condition of hundreds of teens today in our society.