7-Yr-Old's Viral Diary Entry Gives Us an Insight Into Child Heartbreak

16-year-old Utah teenager Madie Cardon recently tweeted excerpts from the diary she kept in 2008, when she was seven years old. The post has instantly gone global, with more than 25,000 retweets so far.

Here's what we've learnt from young Madie: growing up is a brutal, brutal time. It is sink or swim, and no one - not even children - are safe from the perils of romance.

Photo / Twitter, Madie Cardon

In her first piece, seven-year-old Madie wrote: "Today at school my crush Riley was chasing other girls on the playground! I thought he liked me. And guess who he was chasing! Jessica! She is such a player! She hugs at least five boys every day! I am so mad at her."

"I think I will tell Riley her secret. She wears pull ups! After he finds out he won't like her anymore."

Classic move!

But then... we fast-forward to the next day. Valentine's Day of all days.

Photo / Twitter, Madie Cardon

Madie has fallen into a spiral of depression and devastation.

"I made Riley a Valentine," she writes. "Me and Katelyn stayed up all night making it. Before Riley got to school, I put it in his desk (number 22). When he got to school, he looked in his desk and found my box. I wrote anomious (sic) on it so he didn't now (sic) it was from me."

And then... right when he looked at it, she said Riley threw it away.

"I am still crying," she writes, adding that she now has depression.

And now, the conclusion.

Photo / Twitter, Madie Cardon

So poor old Madie was rejected by Riley, for Jessica.

"I am done with boys. I want to kill all of them."

Fair enough Madie, sometimes we all feel this way.

- nzherald.co.nz