i hate seeing my friends go trough so much

i'm at college now, but i have some friends that are around 15-16 years old that i still talk to. i met them at school when i was at senior year and they were finishing middle school.

ofc i hate to see any friend of mine suffering, but these one's specifically just break my heart so much because they are so young. they still study at the same school were we met and where i graduated, my entire high school was spent on that hell so i know exactly how it is to be a gay, weird teenager there. high school was tough for me at that place, and i hate to see them going trough the same hell i went trough.

as the older and "wiser" friends i always try to comfort them, i know this time will pass and that they'll be ok once school's over, but i can't help imagining the pain they are going trough, the same pain i felt some years ago, and that breaks me.

i wish i could take that pain out of them. they are too young to be dealing with so much shit. i love them so much and the fact that i can do close to nothing to help destroys me.