Puberty Blues
Remember being a teenager? All the drama? Highschool? Cliqs? Parties?
Man.... good times..and bad times. It was the best of both worlds. I think it was a time of the greatest happiness and the most devestating lows over far less serious things than I now encounter.
We were creative rascals, weren't we? Would you go back and relive it? Is there a particular teenage moment that inspires or haunts you to this day?
Boldly go.
Should've punched more people in the face.
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I remember being pretty homophobic. And that inspired me to not be homophobic.
I was home schooled so I was spared high school drama and the only parties I went to were hosted by my church.
Knowing what I know now, yes I would relive being a teenager because the math stuff is so much easier now and I think i finally get the english stuff. They didnt want me to come up with original thoughts at all, they wanted me to state what was being conveyed and how and then quote some fancy pants who also thought the same. I was confused because what they considered "original" was what I considered "obvious to anyone who watches/reads it and not really worth mentioning".
I would also have been involved in more sporting activities so I wouldnt be a pudgy mess later (i'd rather be a slightly stocky mess)
There wasnt really any drama and there were cliques but people got along (until they didnt).
Unless by go back and relive it you dont mean revert to a younger age and redo my life and rather go back experience it again then be shoved back into my current body when Im no longer a teenager. Then no, I see no major benefit to experiencing it again asside from all the crazy stuff I can experiment with in a universe with no consequences that will collapse when I turn 20.
Unless by go back and relive it you mean would I like the memories of my 13-19 year old self planted more clearly in my brain then no...no I definitely would not want that.
Last edited by blackmage_nuke; 04-30-2014 at 03:07 PM.
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Hell yeah I'd relive being a teenager over again, I played Pokemon and N64 all day and I didn't feel old, it was frigging great
I just want one summer where I'm like 15 or 16 and I marathon vidya all day every day for three months and eat what I want without gaining weight
oh god those were the days
I had a great social life as a teenager. I had a lot of friends, was in what could be considered one of the "popular" groups, but perhaps just "notable" groups is a better term. When I think about being that age, I particularly think about being in my boyfriend's basement in Utah with all of our friends and piles of terrible food and candy and soda around us while we watched Adult Swim cartoons or someone playing SexBox, probably high, and then aimlessly wandering around the neighborhood in a tiny pack as juvenile delinquents in the dead of night. Just kids being kids. Skipped a lot of school, did pretty much whatever I wanted when my mom wasn't home.
I did not have a great home life as a teenager. I thought about running away all the time but was too afraid to do it because of threats from my mother, had a lot of generally angsty teenage thoughts and hardships in dealing with my family, tried to be a leader for my sisters because my mom was gone more often than she was home. I dealt with parents divorcing and pulling away from the church within just a couple years of eachother, and suffered from both of those things. I don't think I would relive those years, with reasons being that I would not want to relive my home life.
They were equally good and bad years. I would rather just let them be and keep the memories from them rather than reliving them.
My later teenage years were when my life stopped sucking and started getting good, so as long as we're talking 16 and over hell yeah I'd go again. Just playing videogames all day without caring about anything else, and being able to hang out with bros because we haven't yet fallen prey to the wiles of women? Sign me up!
When I was a teenager, my mom emancipated me so she wouldn't have to be responsible for me as she skipped work to be a drunk, then at 15 I got pregnant with twins as a surrogate, gave birth to them, had my mom leave me with rent of $1200/month when I wasn't working (pregnant),went through severe depression, was in an abusive relationship, dropped out of school 4 times, mostly due to things like being pregnant, having to get a job for the rent of the place I downsized to, etc, moved out of town with no transportation, became very isolated, got evicted, moved in with my aunt, went to adult ed, was the victim of sexual assault, got pregnant again, moved back in with my mom who I hadn't spoken to in a few years, aaaaannd then I was an adult!
The high school parts were really not very drama filled. Would I do it again? Only if I could change things. So very many things.
I didn't have a spectacular teenage years, but considering my current position in life, if I were given the chance to relive those years, I would very likely take that chance. There were a lot of missed opportunities and things I never experienced, so things would play slightly different than it had before.
Apparently, I have been declared banished.
My favourite part of leaving highschool is that all the drama and cliques and so on are actually persistent wherever you are. The sweet old ladies at the complex can out-bitch, out-drama and out-clique better than any highschooler (the benefits of growing old and wise, etc).
My teen years were ok, although unspectacular. I guess I might change the odd crush here or the odd self-loathing moment there but nothing particularly bad came out of teenagehood for me.
What I will miss: Not having any real responsibilities, classes and teachers I loved like my history teachers, making weird films during a/v club, Pens to Lens English class where we wrote review essays about films we love, some of my middle school and high school friends whom I've now grown apart from
What I won't miss: Waking up super early to get to homeroom, a majority of the teachers, a majority of the students, the surly librarian, the rules, classes that bored me like Trigonometry, odd growing pains (chubby face swollen face, pimples, etc.)
I wouldn't do anything differently. I'm glad I didn't fall in with another clique of "the cool kids" which I may have around the time I was 13. All of those girls are now pregnant, already had a kid, or work at McDonalds. A majority of the popular people are losers, so I'm glad I went with the nerds. We rule the world.
If i got to keep all my current knowledge, I would have loved to go through the teens again.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
At 14, I stopped trying to socialize with people. Nobody was into the same things I was into and I just didn't want to try. I started "home-schooling" mid-seventh grade, so I didn't do the typical high school, cliques, clubs, parties... I pretty much didn't know anybody. The home-schooling was not so much home-schooling since I did have a few onsite classes for the socials. There had been only sparse moments of recognition amongst the peers. I drew a doodle on a whiteboard that made the mates laugh. That was a high point. I smuggled myself into a few pictures with people I admired. They were obviously confused by my sudden and random sociability. I lost most of those pictures, sadly. I nearly took a girl and her friend to a party, but a misunderstanding forced us to go home before I had even gotten in. I reminisced with my first ex-girlfriend at one point. I tried to impress a couple of girls by climbing a huge wall and sprained my ankle. The pain came and went for the next four or five years.
I'm actually writing a novel that details how I would live my life if I could do it all over again. I hope to be able to make it into a television series.
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
My teenage years were pretty good. I had good friends, no responsibilities, a good home life... I do miss hanging out with those people. I even managed to avoid drama mostly aside from with the girlfriend I had at the time. Aside from that little drama, I was happy.
That being said, I'd never want to go back to those times. I like who I am as a person much better now, after high school. If I were reliving those times with how I am now, I feel like I'd be annoyed a lot of the time.
I miss nothing of puberty or my teenage years.
It was all a major troutfest and I wouldn't wish what I went through on anyone.
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