I transferred schools this year and I miss my old friends.

What feelings arise?

I feel that I’m missing out on things because it’s hard to appease the two friend groups I have and I feel like if I hung out with my old friends my new friends would judge me and vice versa.

How does it affect you?

Although the school is making me more intelligent, the beliefs and attitudes compromise my morals and norms.

A lot of the people judge me simply because I’m Catholic, white, and stick to my morals.

What is your part?

My part is to just play nice with the other children till senior year then get out fast.

What are you learning about yourself, others, the situation? 

I am learning that a lot of people focus on how awful life is for minorities and others at this school but in this day and age everyone views white Catholic males as the anti-Christ and it wasn’t until this year I saw this.

What can you shift or turn around in your beliefs, thinking, words, or actions?

No response. 

How do you choose to work with your difficulty?

I choose to make the best I can out of it. It’s only 2 years.

What is this difficulty teaching you?

No response.

15 years, male