This June a new section titled Affliction will become a part of the Strong Truths Community. As youths and young adults, what we take in each day is what defines our lives. However, our difficult as well as our great moments shape us as artists and lead to many strong creations.

Affliction will be a place where we discuss our daily lives, voicing our day especially if it was a rough one. It will be a place to have someone hear our words or learn from someone’s experience. We can discuss stresses of our lives such as school, family, friends, abuse (verbal & physical), racial issues, learning difficulties or other set backs. We can discuss pressures such as drugs, smoking, alcohol, and dating. Our identity, the awkwardness of being a person, being different, walking through the halls and being present in class with friends and enemies. Our true honest lives.

We all have to deal with the afflictions of life.  It isn’t a struggle to recall our private moments of pain from our past or present. The memories play back in our heads giving that familiar heavy burden we are forced to carry.  It’s easy to relive the cautionary tale that life wrote and directed in the highest definition of sight and sound your mind can produce.

 It could be a specific event or an entire era of your existence, like the inevitable years of High School.  What happened, when did it happen, how did you feel, how do you feel now? What have you learned, gained or lost? 

You will find that you are not alone.  Check out Affliction coming this June!