Lameness (NJM3)

Looks like we are both behind by a few minutes.

Happy birthday to your nephew! Hope this new year of life brings him lots of wonderful, new experiences and opportunies. 🙂 Fourteen was actually a pretty decent year for me, one of the few of my teen years that I can say that about, sadly… You do start to getting slightest taste of adulthood in your mouth by that age, but it’s not bitter yet. It’s still kind of intriguing. *chuckles* Hopeyou got out to vote…! Take good care.

You couldn’t pay me enough to be a teenager again, and I just left that age group four years ago…

Well, if it makes you feel a little better you can just remember it’s not the 4th on the west coast yet.

Be thankful that the boy hasn’t started drugs. That was the age when my son started to go downhill!

lol it counts. You of course could back date it…

I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again either.

The mid-teenage years were tough. Still treated like a kid, but you have opinions and views of your own at that stage. It’s a very frustrating age!

Arbi is bouncing to the top of my list again – bolded when she has not added a new entry.

Being a teen is painful – too many school works. LOL

hah i agree. it wasnt too long ago for me but i would NOT want to be a teenager again! university i would do all over again though.

The is a little wisdom in this entry… That comment on being fourteen, perfect!

What’s lame is that it takes 15 days to response to “Contact Us” emails.

I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again for anything in the world. It’s just not a smooth time in life. But Happy Birthday to you son!

I wouldn’t raise a teenage boy again for anything, either. Mine decided he was a “man” at 16, and proved it by treating his mother like crap. HATED it. Not fun!

It is definitely very frustrating and lonely, especially because you think nobody could possibly understand but if you could just swallow your pride a bit – there are plenty of people who DO have wisdom or advice they could give you. But I guess part of it is that you have to find your own way…

Would you do it again if you could retain your current experience and perspective? If you did do it again, are there any choices you made, actions you took, or things you did or didn’t say that you would change? I agree, “tomorrow” is more acurately defined by whether you’ve gone to bed and gotten back up, than by the hands of the clock. Besides, its YOUR site, so you get to make the rules. :o)

the ages between 12 and 15 are so doggoned difficult. won’t be a teen again for anything. take care,

I’m with you there- wouldn’t do it for anything. That was a very awkward time! I was wondering about the next day thing because I like to write more at night and by the time I get around to it, it’s coming up on 10 or 11 (and that’s if I push myself to get it done!) Think I’m gonna take your lead.

On the other hand, there is still so much to be discovered when you are 14.

A few words is perfectly fine. At least you’re still writing! 🙂

ok DM, your prompt for tomorrow is… write about one of the following:-3 things you’ve learned about heading a community like OD.-3 places you’d go if money was no option.-3 of your favourite things about the internet [with links, if applicable]. ready!set!NOJOMO!

I always think I’m late with my entry when I try to post after 9pm, since the site time is 3 hours ahead of me 😉 Happy Birthday to your nephew! Mine is actually 13, rough years all around. They’re confused, and I don’t know what to get them for their birthdays 😛

I wouldn’t worry about the timing, personally I always class my day as 7am to 7am local time so if it goes past midnight I don’t care (in fact about 98% of my entries ever are written AFTER midnight) 🙂

Teenage years are definitely strange. By 16 I was so supremely confident that I was mature enough to drive around alone in a car, but now I cringe at the thought of my little stepsisters getting cars. Eek. I’ve always loved the quote from Ya Ya Sisterhood — something like: “What I would give to know then what I know now, and still have those thighs!” “I’m sure they’re still buried in there somewhere…”

Hey, I didn’t grow out of being a teen until I was 45. Pretty bad stuff, that.

you got it in thou 🙂 and thats the point hehe

I might be okay with redoing 17 and 18, as those were the years I transitioned from Fat Kid With Low Self Esteem to Hey, I’m Not So Bad, Actually, but man, I wouldn’t relive 14-16, or my early 20s for that matter, for anything.

Pretend you are posting based on Pacific time

Like I say to my 17 year old son all of the time (he’ll be 18 in two months), you’re a man when you pay your own way. Just turning 18 doesn’t mean a thing if he’s still living at home, living off of his mom (and me, with my “child” support payments). Eric

why wouldn’t you want to be a teenager again?

I’m with you. I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again for anything. It was bad enough the first time around. Too confusing and all. Adulthood is enough of a challenge when one really IS an adult, let alone being at an age where one THINKS one is ready to be one.

NO ONE COULD EVER PAY ME ENOUGH TO BE 14 again

Fourteen is a difficult age. Too young to realise that this is the last time you can truly be a kid… and too old to enjoy being a kid. Hope the party went well.

“we were at my in-laws tonight for my nephew’s fourteenth birthday.” See, once you enslave yourself to writing a daily journal entry, this is what you wind up with. Why don’t we do NoMeJo? During the month of November, DON’T post an entry unless it has meaning and purpose, and unless it’s been edited?

I’d love to be a teenager again! But only for a month or so. Being a teenager was so much fun (as much as it was hell lol)

Fourteen is tough and so is nineteen for some reason (I have two grown sons). And you’re not lame! Number one rule in speeches and essays is don’t diss yourself (paraphrased, of course).

Fourteen was the beginning of my “adulthood”…if I could do it again, I would. I’d use my wisdom from the “future” and not make myself grow up as fast as I did…lol.

Not lame at all… teenage years were the hardest time in my life. I was so very unhappy as a teenager, always felt like something was wrong with me but didn’t have a clue what it was. Years later, I realize I was suffering from depression and it could have been fixed had my parents had a different attitude towards me.

We’ll let you slide this time DM! 😉

RYN: I don’t know what you’re talking about… *looks at clock* Oh wait… it’s 5.37am on a school work night… yeh ok fair enough! 🙂

yeah, at least you got a few words down. thumbs up to that. being a teenager was awful. just read my diary for evidence. haha.

There is no way I’d go back to the teenage years. Just the thought makes me break out with acne! —