Hello everyone, after discovering the traditional Catholic faith and taking hours of research upon myself, I have come to the conclusion that it is true. Christ is King, His bride is our only True Catholic Church, His Father is God and Mary is the Queen of Heaven.

However, to my pain, I am one of the only people my age to come to this conclusion. By the grace of God, any other person as young as me who is lead to faith is led by family/parents, God bless you for raising your children well.

As has caught my attention, obviously all the people who now know the truth are older men, who had the grace of being born in a time not far from the true pre-conciliated Church. And the women and children who follow are guided by the graces of those men. That's the rule, I'm an exception to the rule.

If you are an older Catholic reading this, are you wondering what the current condition of the young psyche is? What are the youngest going through today? Since I think most of you will never hear about it by other means, rightly so, I will take care of sharing it. If this is not the right place to post this, let me know.

1.) I was born in 2008, leaving aside my own childhood (which was a disaster), I can attest that many of my classmates have had ruinous childhoods, even if they are from rich parents. All the children normally have today are a parent, usually together with a stepparent. If they are lucky, they have both parents, but generally not in the same house. Some kind of visit is scheduled, sometimes even a secret "love" relationship between the two parents behind the backs of their new spouses, which is as silly as it sounds. If they are extremely lucky, they will have two parents under the same roof, who love each other. But the two parents are usually working, both making phone conferences, both running errands, both planning margarita meetings with Reagan or Chance. It's chaotic. And many children have no one but their parents, such as aunts or uncles, younger cousins or grandparents. Their siblings are limited to 3 (which is lucky) or have a litter of siblings, all with different DNA. I've seen everything I'm describing numerous times, to the point that I barely have to think before writing.

2.) The problem is the lack of God. This is obvious, I have always felt that something was deeper than the meaningless problems faced by modern adults, it is deeper than the economy, etc. I think everyone here is well versed in modern economics, at least they have a basic idea of how horrible it is. The labor market too, I have searched for more than a year after losing my job making Subway sandwiches for DEI purposes, it's no joke, they were not complying with their diversity quota and they stopped putting me on the schedule. Subway sandwiches, yes. I'm not old enough to be sure, but I imagine that all job categories are following a similar destination, probably an even worse destination. Not being able to find a tasteless substitute job for $10/hour is worse. I can't imagine what the poor are going through with university degrees.

3.) Returning to people my age, we are not receiving an adequate education. My education was good, until the fourth grade, once they introduced iPads in the classroom. Wow, what a disaster. Not among the children, yes, the classroom was perfectly fine. Too perfect. You wouldn't hear a peep from a class full of 30 small children. Meanwhile, the teacher was trapped in Candy Crush and even gossiping on the school phone line. If we raised our voices after she started talking, "shhhhh." Idiotic and horrible, since then it has been the same, middle and high school introduced the perspective of "team sports" and things like that. Semi-fun classes that were good, although the students made the class. I have had occasions when it was a 2v1 in soccer in a class of 20 people, because most of the children were sitting. Yes, they failed, they didn't care. The same with basic education, children will rush to pass a test to "do it" simply to watch videos on YouTube, or play the most numbing meaningless games, much worse than the original flash games of 20 years ago.

4.) I need to express something that is true. Young people don't care. About their lives, about the world around them, about their own well-being or that of others, or about anything. It is not performative, the small number of children who care enough today to proclaim that they are "emo" are despised for it. "Clowned" as we say. I'm not defending emo kids, or punks, goths or whatever, but I respect the fact that they wear their brokenness on their sleeves. Many children today are broken and although it is clear to us that have God, it is invisible among them, especially because they are all broken. Their parents are broken, and so it happened. A clear word replacement is "broken" to "Godless", that's the clear problem here. I am writing this in the hope that someone has a better idea of what to do if a broken young man comes to him, or tries to save young souls on a large scale. I left the game of "you are my secular friend" a while ago, so I am alone despite receiving a lot of attention from people my age. Maybe this will be useful for some of you.

5.) Tiktok. Tiktok is a big problem. Worse than Facebook ever was, worse than Instagram is now, worse than YouTube ever was, and I have lived through the reigns of 3/4 of them. Tiktok is a mental porridge for the modern brain. Many people of all ages have been victims of Tiktok, but there is nothing more serious than the danger it represents against young souls. It's worse than the feedback loop. It's worse than the destruction of dopamine receptors. If it were all fruits and vegetables dancing, it wouldn't be so destructive. Tiktok content, particularly for young people, is the most vile, miserable, horrible and evil thing you will ever see. I was in that well, along with millions of other teenagers, when I was 13-15 years old. The number is growing today. I will keep it brief, promotion of p-stitution, promotion of casual ___, drug promotion, tutorials on ways to get and give all of the above, glamorous destruction of school property, glamorous harassment of special needs and disabled, physical harm to the disabled and the elderly, gang violence, how to join gangs, how to form gangs, an unavoidable exposure to rap music even in innocent videos, "trap" or "pluggnb" as it is known, glamorous all of the above. All this is being fed to children aged 11-19. Maybe even younger. I live in a rather docile part of the United States, built and maintained by Protestants, there are no crimes in my area to talk about until 2021. All the children who were not in my advanced classes are victims of the content on Tiktok, it is like this now and it has been like this since the lockdown restrictions were lifted. Imagine how bad it is in the center of the cities. Imagine how bad it is in the genuine country. Does this mean educating your children at home? Absolutely not. Catholic or private school is the answer, unless you have all day to be at home and watch your children. It's incredibly easy to set up Tiktok on any device in the house, hide it, make it look like it was never installed. Will your children be further away or closer to the dirt on the Internet, which is where the dirt of today's modern world originates from? Use the answer to that question to guide your decision. If one really cared to verify what I'm saying, they could easily set up a fake account and in a few days start seeing the content I'm referring to. Don't do that to your conscience, believe me.

6.) Destruction of souls out of boredom. Young people today are bored. There is nothing to do and nowhere for them to go. So they meet up and you get the idea. They destroy their own souls out of boredom, out of lack of knowledge of the faith, therefore no faith. I am a rare exception where I've always felt like I've known better but majority of modern kids don't get that instinct as strong as I did, or get so miserably bored and suicidal that they turn to these horrible things led to them by Satan. An idle mind is the Devil's playground, that is what 95% of the youth have today. Among all races, ages, sexes, if you're under 20 you're feeling the immense pressure of purposelessness. The majority of young people have no knowledge of God therefore fall into the traps of Satan whether they want to sin against God or not. That's perhaps an incredibly forgiving and innocent view of things, but that's my genuine feeling. Of course, while I pray for people, I treat everything they do as if it were intentional to offend God because in some form or fashion, it usually is. I'm referring mostly to the youngest kids here.

7.) Rock is dead. I can't believe I still see conversations of rock music within the Catholic community. It's the only time I ever see rock music discussed. Rap is the mainstream, has been for 20 years, and will continue to be. Black culture has therefore had an uproar and a huge effect on the minds of the youth. I don't need to go any further as it'd be redundant, just understand that Tiktok and modern black culture are strongly intertwined. I have very close black friends who despise modern black culture along with me. Everything it promotes is not only destruction of their own people but destruction of the entire world at this point, it's very rare you'll stumble upon a white (skinned, not race, if you catch my drift) rapper who'll mysteriously top the charts, make tons of money and disappear. Jack Harlow, Lil Dicky, Lil Mabu are examples. All of which got popular from the pushing of Tiktok. Rap is the clear enemy of pure souls and the next step downwards musically.

Are young people too far away from saving? It depends. I think many are already unequivocally. You can read it on their faces, they have gone by 99%. But younger people from 13 to 15 still have a chance. If I had had proper teaching at that time, I would have been on the straight and narrow path a long time ago. I was using Tiktok as a filler for my free time, I had too much, I can say that most children of that age are now still in the same situation, and they can be helped if they are not saved from destruction. In fact, very easily. Stupidly easy. However, it is a big headache, and it will damage parts of yourself to save others. I have already tried to save some people, with more injuries than success, but still success. However, with the injuries so serious that I am taking a back seat and writing this to be shared, disseminated and taken into account by all who read this far, if it is God's will. Conclusion: Bring young people back to God.

Thank you for sharing your experiences -- which, as you say, are unreachable for most of us. How many of us in our 40's or 50's can go sign up for Public School and masquerade as a school kid? Or experience what it's like to be a child or teen growing up in the 2020's?

Approximately 0 of them.