I've recently had the most life-changing, astonishing, thought-provoking conversation in my entire life with my 10-year-old female cousin who lives in my grandparents outside the grid home village and attends a barely functional, hand-built school.
In case you're interesting in the story here it is:>be me>Went to see my grandparents with my family after I finished my second semester >My aunts and cousins were there too>There was a wedding nearby, so all the adults had to go>Volunteered to take care of my younger cousins to avoid going>Left them to fight and play together and went to a separate room to play with my phone >One of my younger cousins approached me>"What are you watching, anon?">Told her that I'm just wasting time on my phone>She sat next to me and said she didn't want to play with the others anymore and wanted to watch what I was watching>I was watching anime, so I switched to Molly McGee, a kids' cartoon I had downloaded before to watch together >After two episodes, she asked me why I was sad>Told her that I'm not "You haven't made a sound since I came, and your face doesn't move.">She kept insisting on me >I gave up and for some reason decided to open up to her because what else could I do>Told her how I feel lost, that I don't know what I'm supposed to do, that I'm studying something I hate and barely keeping up with my studies, that I lost all my old friends because no one wanted to talk to me, and that I made no new friends this year>She leaned in and said,>"That's a lot, but can you change any of that? Your friends weren't your real friends, that's why they left. They probably just used you for homework and to explain stuff to them. I had other mean girls do the same to me.">We kept talking like that for most of the night>She asked me questions, and I tried to answer her>She told me she likes talking to me, so I shouldn't be sad all the time or she'll have to play and fight with the others which she doesn't want to do >I wiped my tears after realizing I had just vented my problems to a little girl, and we started watching some more episodes until she fell asleep.>Closed my phone and Kept looking at the stars with for a while until I slept too
I was talking to a 10 year old girl on Instagram last year before she was banned.