TagOne Youth. Infinite Hope.

by Lauren Patterson22 years oldTorrance, Calif. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder when I was 9, which left me feeling so small and miserable. It got to the point where I didn’t want to leave my house, because I felt that people saw me as a joke, just a waste of skin. In high

by Bethany Davis32 years oldCave Springs, Ark. One day in 2013, my brother was found unresponsive after overdosing. My dad and I chanted Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for him, as if our own lives depended on it. No one thought he was going to make it, so we were amazed when he woke up to the call of

by Bryant Ríos-Niño23 years oldStamford, Conn. I fell in love with skateboarding, yet used it only to escape life during my lowest point at age 17. I was struggling in school and was surrounded by bad influences. I got into smoking and started rebelling against my parents. I had grown up in a family that practices