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Randerolf 09-06-2003 09:19 PM

What Were Your Teen age Years like? How have they Change?
 
I was watching Bowling for Columbine, adn an older friend of mine asked me, "Was it really that bad to be a teenager?"

How were your teenage years?

How were the teenage years of the 90's different from the 60s- 70s?

Sleepyjack 09-07-2003 03:56 AM

My teenage years were pretty good, in that my family life was stable and always had a good number of friends and was relatively popular around the school. Sure i also had all the teen agnst and frustration but thats a given.
However, kids and teenagers are always gonna be mean and nasty etc and seperation through preconceived ideas and such will probably happen well into the future.
I guess you're refering to outcasts and loners, who get teased repeatedly and satrt shooting up schools?

anti fishstick 09-07-2003 11:38 AM

i had the typical teen angst depression thing going on. and you know, i LIKED being that way. i took comfort in it. i revelled in dwelling. i think i glamourized it. i had wishy washy ideals that a boy would sweep me off my feet and 'save' me and that that would be so romantic. i know now that it's up to you to change *yourself* and to put the strain on anyone else is selfish. the moment that changed for me was when i found myself WANTING to be a self-mutilator. and i had to recheck myself and think 'wait a minute, am i really as messed up as i think?? what am i trying to prove here'. i asked myself if i REALLY wanted to be depressed and realized that i didn't. yeah, maybe i was depressed but a good deal of it was just my own melodrama. now, i keep my melodrama in check (although i still like drama in my life :P ). i realized i actually didn't want to be depressed anymore, and that it was up to me to change it, and so i did accordingly.

i'm much happier now. :)

bob090362 09-07-2003 12:47 PM

My teen years were spent thinking I would find my soulmate, or something stupid along those lines. I was rather lonely, shy, and had few to little friends. I was always expecting too much from relationships, wanting more from them, and getting depressed/lonely when I realized I could never have what I wanted. My highschool years were mostly full of being rejected, being alone, and losing friends. Not the best times of my life, despite what many say.

My teenage years weren't all that long ago, so I would guess it's still pretty much the same experience that kids are going through right now. Highschool to me was a giant opera of people trying to make drama because our lives were so meaningless and pointless at the time.

World's King 09-07-2003 01:21 PM

Mine were pretty boring. I played sports, did theater, sang in choir, got good grades, and really fit in well with everyone. It wasn't a big deal.

Nefir 09-07-2003 01:43 PM

My teenage years were mostly spent coping with a rather weak English-as-a-second-language verbal skills, and a morbid fear of girls that I regret to this day! Still, it was an interesting time... a time of extreme geekery and bully-dodging... and it contributed to making me the stronger, more confident and charismatic geek I am proud to be today. :D

Frowning Budah 09-07-2003 02:31 PM

I am a child of the 70s. Growing up was great. I was one of the lucky ones. I was good in school had a stable family life and lots of Friends. Our high school was pretty homogeneous and the rich kids hung with the poor kids, jocks hung with the brains etc. It gets tougher as you grow older. You find out the world doesn't work the way you have been told. I have moved away from most of my family and Friends, works mostly sucks and I don't have any close Friends around here. Not all is bad. I have enough cash to do most of what I want and a wonderful wife so it is kind of a trade off.

God of Thunder 09-08-2003 06:21 AM

I was a teenager in the 80's, so that itself was pretty bad, but I can't complain.

I grew up in a good community, went to a decent school and hung out with great friends.

I've often looked back and thought that I had it pretty good. I see all of the school shootings and violence on the news and think, "What are they so angry at?" I don't remember high school being that bad.

My only regrets are that I didn't get laid more.:D

baaa 09-08-2003 12:26 PM

I was fat, yet I had many friends
got skinny, got good at picking up girls. stopped hanging with friends.
Know I got a girl but not as many friends

Dano069 09-08-2003 12:43 PM

Mine were pretty good. Although I was adopted, my adoptive parents treated me as their own. My folks owned a business, so, I always had a job. I had a lot of friends and enjoyed hanging out with them. No teenage angst here.

yournamehere 09-08-2003 02:32 PM

I was a teenager in the 70s.
I think we had it pretty good - arguments were handled by fistfights - not guns; we had a cause (Vietnam) to concern us; nobody cared what and where you smoked; drug use was a casual lifestyle, not a big business ruled by gangs and cartels (yet); AIDS was still over a decade away, and all the ladies were on the pill.

And don't even bother arguing - the music was the BEST!!

Then disco happened and I've been in mourning ever since.

almostaugust 09-09-2003 06:40 AM

I always felt like i was a 5 years held back in my teen years. My elder sisters year were such wild and free crazy bastards, and they really set the benchmark for me. Saying that, i really had a lot of fun all things considered. I can surely look back and laugh. I remember the bad times, and its a healthy thing i think.

Slims 09-09-2003 10:10 AM

I wasn't a happy teenager, but no, it wasn't that bad. Ignore everything michael moore says.

It's not really on topic, but here is a writup on how moore 'invented' the things he showed in bowling for columbine:
http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html

Cynthetiq 09-09-2003 11:03 AM

I started my own business... i worked.. i worked... i worked.. i did some things with the money i made. I didn't care what anyone said about me, who I hung out with, what friends I had.

Sometimes when I wasn't working, it was difficult because I sat and worried about all the crap that I didn't need to be worrying about.

bermuDa 09-09-2003 05:11 PM

long story, and it's not quite over yet.

bundy 09-09-2003 05:12 PM

when i was a teenager... i was really popular, fun loving, stress free and talented (at music).

these days, i feel like i live a few rungs beneath that.
as though all of the bad shit i did back then has been slowly catching up with me. karma i guess.

my close circle of friends is about a tenth of what it was, i'm constantly stressed by uni assignments and i refuse to play music for fear of having lost that talent.


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