What were your teen years like?
musicismylife78
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Mine were pretty tame. I never drank, or did drugs or smoked. I felt a distance start between my parents and I that hasnt been mended and fixed. I never snuck out late at night. I was a good student, did all my homework, never skipped class.
While I had and still have my share of teen angst, and while I dont regret being and maintaining my straight edge status, it seems almost like, I feel like i missed out on things. It seems like I feel a sense of aliveness right now, and feel like I need to start living. And I feel like my teen years I should have been doing that. I have a desire to live life to the absolute fullest, but how do I do that if I feel like my chance at rebellion, and living, could have passed me by!
While I had and still have my share of teen angst, and while I dont regret being and maintaining my straight edge status, it seems almost like, I feel like i missed out on things. It seems like I feel a sense of aliveness right now, and feel like I need to start living. And I feel like my teen years I should have been doing that. I have a desire to live life to the absolute fullest, but how do I do that if I feel like my chance at rebellion, and living, could have passed me by!
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That's my teenage years in all their mediocrity
'06 - London, Dublin, Reading
'07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
'09 - London, Manchester, London
'12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
Got drunk at 14
Laid at 15
High at 16
Arrested at 17
and repeated all of the above until I was in my late twenties.
Good Times
Oh and if my children do any of this, the beatings will begin.
I have been there and done that with everything! My kids will not pull the wool over my eyes, maybe my wife's but not mine.
Gosh, hard to believe that I am somewhat successful in life after all that dumb shit
Sweep the Leg Johnny.
its part of learning and the life experience!
i was very much a shy loser kid until 15 or so but then randomly just came out of my shell when started hangin out with the right people. listening to and playing music. drinking hard. learning how to control that after a few years. fucking up relationships. being impulsive. experimenting with drugs. repeating exams. going to college.
to the OP:
iwouldnt regret any of that immaturity, then again i just look at life that way: whatever course you take the important part is what you learn from it along the way. but i also recognise that it was immature.
if you feel like you want to try these things do, but do so knowing your limits or when something is changing you for the worse. some of it seems exciting when youve missed out on it, but some of it is better being left behind.
oxc
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I was seventeen when I had my first serious girlfriend, but I'd had some happy close encounters before then. Between the ages of eighteen and twenty, I got through a lot of women. I was a dirty little bastard, looking back on it.
I remember aged about nineteen, playing guitar around a friend's house. We jammed on Interstellar Overdrive. Syd Barrett lived three doors away, and was in his front garden, listening. Didn't seem distressed at all. Amused, if anything. Ah, happy days.
As for drinking, ah, I started that when I was teething.
Once I get out of this town
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"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
"To is a preposition.
Come is a verb"
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if i was born 10 days earlier i would be. :(
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the cutoff was october 1st.
but at least i get to be one of the biggest kids in my year!:)
When I see my old friends and they introduce me to their friends who don't know me, they need only mention a few facts about my past and I hear, "Really? OMG! What was that like? Sit down! Tell me all about it!"
Really...I know it sounds like I'm trying to be boastful. If anything, I wish I could undo pretty much everything that I did because I paid a heavy, heavy price later in life.
But, the word "wild" is an enormous understatement by like a marathon's distance.
Let's just say that my parents had a house 1 block from the beach in sunny southern california, and I knew pretty much everyone there was to know in my city and then some.
But I wil end it on a somber note and admit that I've never had group sex.
Nowadays I am no one. I am less than no one.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
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btw, anyone other than you listen to (or even know of, for that matter) pearl jam? for my grade its like me and 4 other kids who even know who they are
ha
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every time i wear my tour 06 surfboard logo shirt my history teacher says something about PJ to me
Your teachers ROCK then.....
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
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i just kept to myself at home. locking myself in my room for hours just listening to music while i did homework. i had nothing better to do than get good grades so that i could get into college and get the hell out of that town. i was on the dance team and played tennis, so i wasn't a total loner. but, i wasn't really popular. i would spend too much time making out with my boyfriend in parked cars around town...that was fun
i didn't come out of my shell until i went off to college at 17. i haven't been the same person since...and i feel i'm better off for it! so much fun!!
i was a very *bad* kid in that i did, well, just about everything...:p hahaha. but what fun!
however, i was pretty much a straight A student, never skipped out of school, well except for typing class. :rolleyes: and i did get detention a LOT for smoking. yikes.
i didn't have to sneak out to stay out late, i was the last child....and yes, pretty damn good at convincing my parents to let me do what i wanted to do. sure, there were a couple times tho, eh well. bottomline, even with all the shite i did...i was a very responsible teen, so it was all good. i think my mother would have a storke if she knew all the things i did, hell me and my sisters did.....:eek: however, she doesn't...we have a great relationship.....i am a fairly responsible/togther adult...so no regrets.
it was FUN!!!
:cool:
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Met lots of cool people, had lots of crazy experiences.
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