Meet the Author

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A Little Girl Tries
Sep 8, 2018 · 3 min read

Hello, friend.

It’s been a while since I started writing here.

This means you may know my writing. But what about me? Why follow my page( besides the fact that my profile is more lit than your house on Christmas Eve)?

My Adventures Were Always Supposed To End This Way

Here Is My Life In One Minute:

I am nineteen years old and I have survived “colleging” for a year now.

Before I was a colleger, I did a lot of stuff.

Things that most kids are scared to do.

Experiences, I call them.

Most of them have helped me grow as a person and, most importantly, as the person God wants me to be.


  • Like the five years I spent in a religious all-girls boarding school.
  • Or the four months I lived in France, caring for five unstable electron children.
  • There were also hundreds of times on both sides of the Atlantic when I thought it would be a good idea for Google Maps and me to explore the Big City. No money, no transportation…

Anyway, you get the idea.

I like to say I am a “Free Spirit”.

My parents just call me a “Knucklehead”.

But my best experiences take place when I am talking to the person next to me and exploring their ideas.

I am insanely curious about what you are thinking inside of your head and I will probably ask you direct questions to find out.

And then I write what I have found out here. I also write here about the latest city I became lost in . And what my five electrons are destroying right now.


So why follow “The Art of Being Young”?

I don’t know you, New Friend.

I don’t know why you follow the writer who talks about skin health or the dude with five thousand followers who publishes articles on tech.

I don’t know if you will continue to live life on the surface until your internet dies or your Spotify Premium expires.

I don’t know if you will follow me into the Young Adult Lounge of Heroes and sip on Chai Tea Lattes while scrolling through my stories.

My stories on what?

It might at first seem I write on anything.

After all at nineteen, we are trying to figure the world out. Why do my political opponents think that way? Is Instagram really better than Facebook? How should I live the rest of my life?And why do so few people know how to make a quesadilla correctly?


But there is an ocean bottom below the tempestuous waves of my stories. It is a bottom that I, as a young adult rely on and that gives support to every one of my writings.

It is a bottom that I hope each of my readers will take some sand from when they leave.

What is written on the ocean bottom?

The words of Pope Benedict XVI: “The world promises you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”

I don’t think we nineteen year olds are only supposed to have adventures and try the next flavor or Boba Tea. Our fingers were made for more than swiping and our arms for more than countless selfies. We must strive for more since we were made for more.

Me Wondering How Google Maps Will Get Me Out of This One

We meme, we laugh, we criticize, we BRB and JMO but, at the end of every story, we remember that the greatest experience life can offer is to become who we are meant to be.

We are meant to be good people.

We are meant to be saints.

A Little Girl Tries

Written by

Twenty. Nursing Student. Catholic. A soul capable of loving Him. Talk to me here: teresasideas@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/LittleGirlTries99/

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