What were your teen years like?

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
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!
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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    Pretty tame. I was pretty antisocial back home since no one listened to rock music so I got teased about my 'shit taste in music' quite a bit and for having medium length hair (where I live all guys need a short back and sides or else they look like a girl apparently :rolleyes: ). Couldn't wait to escape to the city to be able to relax a little and 'find people like me'. Didn't get drunk until uni (other than 1 event when I was 13) and had never socialised outside of school, so it was all a new experience to me. But when I moved to manchester for uni I was paranoid about getting skint so didn't go out at night much. Sorted that out when I was 19.


    That's my teenage years in all their mediocrity :)
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • acoustic guy
    acoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    Great!
    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
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    acoustic guy wrote:
    Gosh, hard to believe that I am somewhat successful in life after all that dumb shit

    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.
  • PJaddicted
    PJaddicted Posts: 1,432
    I was completely wild and things were pretty awful at home.

    oxc
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  • pearljammin41
    pearljammin41 Posts: 465
    pretty tame here.. good relationship with the folks.. did well in school... played basketball in high school.... rocked Pearl Jam/STP/Soundgarden/Silverchair with the friends on the weekends...
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I ran a mail order national comedy fanzine, from the ages of thirteen to fifteen. It was great fun. It sold quite well, too. When I got to about fifteen, I picked up the electric guitar.

    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.
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    im 15........pretty tame........for now
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    I loved my teen years, especially when I turned 17.........whoo hoo!! :D
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • TransplantedNewf
    TransplantedNewf Posts: 805
    I was quite a handful. Drinking/pot/sex/lying/snuck out/crawled back in through my window. I'm quite proud of my mother for not killing me...because if i had kids that acted the way i did, i'd kill them. I've always had a good relationship with my parents. They let me rebel and find my own way.
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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    im 15........pretty tame........for now
    exact same for me too...
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,712
    Horrific.
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    seanw1010 wrote:
    exact same for me too...
    you a sophmore?
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    you a sophmore?
    nope, freshman
    if i was born 10 days earlier i would be. :(
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    seanw1010 wrote:
    nope, freshman
    if i was born 10 days earlier i would be. :(
    when were you born sept. 10th/9th?
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    when were you born sept. 10th/9th?
    oct. 10
    the cutoff was october 1st.
    but at least i get to be one of the biggest kids in my year!:)
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    People sometimes tell me I should write a book about it sometime.

    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.
    reigning champion

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    seanw1010 wrote:
    oct. 10
    the cutoff was october 1st.
    but at least i get to be one of the biggest kids in my year!:)
    dammit! im not the youngest one here hahaha. im one of the youngest in my grade. born august 14th
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    dammit! im not the youngest one here hahaha. im one of the youngest in my grade. born august 14th
    damn that would suck.
    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
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    seanw1010 wrote:
    damn that would suck.
    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
    the 20 year old teachers haha!i wore my stickman shirt, i got compliments from teachers. other kids dont really listen to them. its all hiphop and rap to everyone.
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    the 20 year old teachers haha!i wore my stickman shirt, i got compliments from teachers. other kids dont really listen to them. its all hiphop and rap to everyone.
    exactly the same for me!
    every time i wear my tour 06 surfboard logo shirt my history teacher says something about PJ to me
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go

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