Being Eleven

11 years old. If you are reading this article, you may have conquered the eleventh year of your life. But if you are older, you may have forgotten 11, so you have advantages and disadvantages. First of all, 11 has many advantages. For example, my parents trust me more. My parents made me stay alone in the house, not having a babysitter. They let me go to see the movies without holding my hand. My parents did not show such paranoia about playing in the garden.

Please imagine 8, 11, 18 surrounded by public demo of doubt and doubt. Imagine 8, 11, or 18 people. And listen to countless critics wondering why you live with others. As adults think that their handmade watches are bombs in their own lives or think that the whole school system is shutting down, imagine seeing kids that look like you Please give me. Or look at an armed activist pretending to be a "patriot" protesting outside the community center.

Imagine you are 11 years old, sitting in a parking lot at the mall behind the car with friends and running to JC Penney to find her mother. You are talking to an innocent 11-year-old - probably last week, Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable pulled an interesting plug at The Cosby Show - suddenly your friend's eyes crossed her and you were talking over you While watching you cross, the windows around you are cars. When she screams, you will hear something jump over the window, and you turn into an ambiguous thing - certainly a person - to see less than 6 inches from your face. Why is he knocking the window? When you try to deal with what is happening you will think about it. Your friend hurries up and locks the front door of the car, shouts at you and locks the back door. And as you realize what people are doing outside the car, your friend is lying at the corner of the car. He ran away. But it is not not dirty - what is that? - car window