My Confusion and I

Do you remember how it felt to be young? When every experience was new and there were impressions to take in where ever you went. You felt like you could do anything in the world but at the same time you were terrified what the future would bring. You thought you were grown-up but there was nothing else you wanted, when you were sad, than to get a long and loving hug from your mother. I bet you can’t recall those feelings because once you get older you close that chapter in your life and decides to put that book away, all the way behind the books you’ve read before, in that dusty, old bookshelf you have decided to call past. It might seem like the past to you but it is what made you into the person you are today. You might think, who am I to tell. I am just a girl with no life experience at all. Just someone that thinks she knows what she is talking about and you know what, you might be right but at least I remember how it feels like being young. If you think it is...

Tonight it's Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement for us jews. This day is for us to repent our sins and ask G-d for forgiveness if we've done something wrong this year, which we all have even if you think you're perfect. One thing we are also suppose to do is to ask the people around us for forgiveness which leads to a bunch of Facebook statuses and text messages saying "I'm sorry if I've done something to upset you this year". I tend to ignore these messages for one reason; If you don't know what you have done, why the hell are you apologising for it? As a child I was taught that if you say you're sorry you should mean it and by meaning it you're not planning on doing it again. This mentality then creates an issue with apologising collectively because you don't actually know what you have done wrong which means that you're not going to change it, not because you don't want to but because you simply don't know that it is upsetting...