I'm just a 15 year old girl

By Japji

I’m just a 15 year old girl living in a nice country called Canada, something I take for granted.
I live comfortably, more food than needed, more entertainment than needed, more money than needed.
All thanks to the efforts of my parents, immigrants, a word that isn’t very popular nowadays.

I’m just a 15 year old girl who wastes her days doom scrolling on social media.
I live knowing that somewhere, on the other side of the globe, kids my age or younger aren’t able to doom scroll, they don’t even know what that means.
All thanks to the perfect world, all thanks to humanity.

I’m just a 15 year old girl who has the right to live a life no less than a man, like all other 15 year old girls, girls who believe feminism is stupid, a scam, an uncultured belief system.

Meanwhile:

The 15 year old girl in Afghanistan can’t go to school, or must be very careful when she does

The 15 year old boy’s brother in Palestine has just been killed in front of his eyes

The 15 year old kid in India has to work several jobs before and after school to make ends meet, with barely any time to study

The 15 year old indigenous children in Canada, a developed country, don’t have access to clean drinking water

The 15 year old kids in America and Canada are doom scrolling, wasting resources, rage baiting people on the internet, joking about things like sexual harassment and people’s mothers, being told what to believe, developing a bias of what is right and wrong, what religion is good or bad hating on people with opposite beliefs, sending threats on the internet, praising homophobic, racist and sexist behaviour knowing people will validate them for doing so, making podcasts on why men should man up and take lead and why women should make babies and be good wives. Yeah, all seen in the media, proving just how much I doom scroll. 

All this, in 2025. All these beliefs that 5 year old me thought didn’t exist. I knew sexism was a thing, but I thought it was a thing of the far past, because nobody was sexist in kindergarten, so I thought I was living in good times. Little did I know that the world is still just as backwards as it had always been, just modernized. 

I’m just a 15 year old girl whose roles and rights are being debated by people who think their religious, personal and traditional beliefs should influence my life. 

I'm just a 15 year old girl living in a world of inhumane humans. Will anyone start real change?