Busy With Serious Problems – Yes the teenage years are full of them too! I wanted to applaud Rabbi Lazer Brody for bringing this important story from Melanie to us all. We often forget just exactly how challenging those teenage years can be and how difficult it is at times just to “be yourself”. Believe me Melanie, many of us adults have plenty of ideas about how we wish we could be more like others and somehow also enjoy some of their successes as well. It just doesn’t ever really work out that way…
I think the best thing that you can do is to be true to yourself and pray daily to G-d for the strength to continue doing so. I also think that one way to allow yourself to feel more included in the action may be to try doing some active mitzvot at or around school. You could gather some student volunteers and donate your time to cleaning a park, visiting sick kids in hospitals, organizing student efforts for the school, for the community or for anything else that you personally feel strongly about.
I think that kids have lots of power to change things around them and they can also become the “center of an activity” that may be more powerful and meaningful than they realized themselves! These type of actions may help you to take steps as an individual that can make you feel good – a pleasant side product of mitzvot 😉 and by encouraging, participating, or organizing them, you can put yourself straight into the “middle of the action” – both with your schoolmates and with Hashem.
I wish you and all of the teenage readers out there all the best, and know that the times that you are now experiencing are tough, but I believe that with your words, thoughts and prayers you can reach out and find true happiness.
G-d Bless
2. Mati
11/12/2009
I wanted to applaud Rabbi Lazer Brody for bringing this important story from Melanie to us all. We often forget just exactly how challenging those teenage years can be and how difficult it is at times just to “be yourself”. Believe me Melanie, many of us adults have plenty of ideas about how we wish we could be more like others and somehow also enjoy some of their successes as well. It just doesn’t ever really work out that way…
I think the best thing that you can do is to be true to yourself and pray daily to G-d for the strength to continue doing so. I also think that one way to allow yourself to feel more included in the action may be to try doing some active mitzvot at or around school. You could gather some student volunteers and donate your time to cleaning a park, visiting sick kids in hospitals, organizing student efforts for the school, for the community or for anything else that you personally feel strongly about.
I think that kids have lots of power to change things around them and they can also become the “center of an activity” that may be more powerful and meaningful than they realized themselves! These type of actions may help you to take steps as an individual that can make you feel good – a pleasant side product of mitzvot 😉 and by encouraging, participating, or organizing them, you can put yourself straight into the “middle of the action” – both with your schoolmates and with Hashem.
I wish you and all of the teenage readers out there all the best, and know that the times that you are now experiencing are tough, but I believe that with your words, thoughts and prayers you can reach out and find true happiness.
11/12/2009
Busy With Serious Problems – Yes the teenage years are full of them too! I wanted to applaud Rabbi Lazer Brody for bringing this important story from Melanie to us all. We often forget just exactly how challenging those teenage years can be and how difficult it is at times just to “be yourself”. Believe me Melanie, many of us adults have plenty of ideas about how we wish we could be more like others and somehow also enjoy some of their successes as well. It just doesn’t ever really work out that way…
I think the best thing that you can do is to be true to yourself and pray daily to G-d for the strength to continue doing so. I also think that one way to allow yourself to feel more included in the action may be to try doing some active mitzvot at or around school. You could gather some student volunteers and donate your time to cleaning a park, visiting sick kids in hospitals, organizing student efforts for the school, for the community or for anything else that you personally feel strongly about.
I think that kids have lots of power to change things around them and they can also become the “center of an activity” that may be more powerful and meaningful than they realized themselves! These type of actions may help you to take steps as an individual that can make you feel good – a pleasant side product of mitzvot 😉 and by encouraging, participating, or organizing them, you can put yourself straight into the “middle of the action” – both with your schoolmates and with Hashem.
I wish you and all of the teenage readers out there all the best, and know that the times that you are now experiencing are tough, but I believe that with your words, thoughts and prayers you can reach out and find true happiness.
G-d Bless
11/12/2009
I wanted to applaud Rabbi Lazer Brody for bringing this important story from Melanie to us all. We often forget just exactly how challenging those teenage years can be and how difficult it is at times just to “be yourself”. Believe me Melanie, many of us adults have plenty of ideas about how we wish we could be more like others and somehow also enjoy some of their successes as well. It just doesn’t ever really work out that way…
I think the best thing that you can do is to be true to yourself and pray daily to G-d for the strength to continue doing so. I also think that one way to allow yourself to feel more included in the action may be to try doing some active mitzvot at or around school. You could gather some student volunteers and donate your time to cleaning a park, visiting sick kids in hospitals, organizing student efforts for the school, for the community or for anything else that you personally feel strongly about.
I think that kids have lots of power to change things around them and they can also become the “center of an activity” that may be more powerful and meaningful than they realized themselves! These type of actions may help you to take steps as an individual that can make you feel good – a pleasant side product of mitzvot 😉 and by encouraging, participating, or organizing them, you can put yourself straight into the “middle of the action” – both with your schoolmates and with Hashem.
I wish you and all of the teenage readers out there all the best, and know that the times that you are now experiencing are tough, but I believe that with your words, thoughts and prayers you can reach out and find true happiness.
G-d Bless