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Post by The Captain on Mar 26, 2020 5:55:49 GMT -5
My teen years while I was in middle and high school sucked.
My teen years after I graduated high school and moved away to college were awesome.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 26, 2020 6:13:56 GMT -5
Can't say my teens were particularly traumatic compared the experiences of other people I know, but they were no picnic, either. Like the Captain, though, I was particularly happy to put my high school years behind me.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 26, 2020 7:42:27 GMT -5
Teen years for me were pretty much like anyone would expect. Like a roller coaster ride up/down/twist you sideways. But overall rather average and full of memories which formed me as a youth into the man of today. Family/friends/school/sports/life all in a topsy turvy whirl taking the bad with the good and mixing it all together.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 26, 2020 9:44:26 GMT -5
13-16 kind of sucked nards. 16-19 was pretty great overall. If I knew then what I knew now they'd be faboo.
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Post by impulse on Mar 26, 2020 10:22:23 GMT -5
Yeah, most of teen years were awkward as hell. My senior year of high school was a dramatic improvement over the others, though. Summer after was AMAZING. College was fun, too. I didn't have to work crazy hours to support it, so it was most of the perks of adulthood without all the responsibilities.
Given a choice, I would NEVER want to go back to being a teenager and would sooner forget most of it, but what I miss the most and fear I will seldom if ever get back is the sense of absolute, open-ended pure freedom during the summer after high school and before college. Total freedom from responsibilities, no mortgage or bills anchoring me down. I didn't owe anyone anything. No major commitments aside from fun with friends.
That would be nice. Oh, well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 12:19:33 GMT -5
Pre 16 sucked. 16+ was awesome. So many great things happened in the next 10 yrs.
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 26, 2020 18:16:01 GMT -5
Wish I had the positive teenage experiences you guys had. All I experienced was a hodgepodge of puberty, unrequited love, and bad grades.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 18:30:50 GMT -5
My father had a massive stroke my senior year of high school and was out of work for nearly a half a year as he rehabbed form it. A home nurse was more than my mother made per week, so she quit work to take care of my dad. I was left to work full time in addition to finishing high school. All my "so-called" high school friends decided I was no fun because I was working all the time to keep food on the table and make sure we made rent, and not doing all the senior year festivities and spending mommy and daddy's money left and right (I went to a Catholic high school that had a mostly affluent population, we were among the exceptions as my parents scrimped, saved, and sacrificed for me to go there). And my folks still didn't think I was doing enough to help and was being selfish because I wouldn't give up my college plans. It soured my view of my high school experience (which wasn't the greatest anyways as the outsider/geek type.
As soon as I graduated and could do so, I got out of dodge, going to Boston for school and staying there as much as possible between semesters or staying with friends and returned home during my teen years only when I absolutely had to. I was in a very dark place those later teen years.
By senior year of undergrad (in my early 20s), I had patched things up for the most part with my folks and moved home for a time after undergrad to help me get situated so I could do grad school, and things got a lot better with them after I finished grad school and moved out, but overall there is little I look back on fondly from my later teen years, and that casts a large shadow of my early teen years too. Most of the find memories come from times spent playing D&D or around comics and geek culture, but overall no desire to relive or celebrate those years.
-M
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 26, 2020 19:37:50 GMT -5
Junior high was a time of utter misery for me, as my growing interest in girls was accompanied by my self-loathing due to my handicap (not to mention an epic case of acne). By the time I entered high school, though, my complexion had cleared and I'd gotten over myself and thus my three years at Wilson were among my happiest. Thirty years later, I found out I was considered one of "the popular kids"... something I had zero awareness of at the time!
Cei-U! I summon the halcyon days of my youth!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 19:52:36 GMT -5
The US now has the most amount of Covid-19 cases, having surpassed China.
But I do not believe China's data at all. I believe they are understating it. Neighboring North Korea has reported 0 cases because the Supreme Leader has repelled the virus with a wave of his magic cheese.
Netizens in China have been claiming actual figures are 20x higher, referring to overflowing morgues, but, facing threats of heavy reprimand, can only do so much. Let us not forget they arrested the Doctor who tried to break his silence about the virus to begin with.
Mortified by what I see happening daily....and hope someone....eventually....does pay for this.
There, I said it.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 26, 2020 19:56:02 GMT -5
I am more of a panic at first and then just get on with things sort. When things are really bad you are just existing. Expect the worst, hope for the best.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 27, 2020 6:39:35 GMT -5
I am more of a panic at first and then just get on with things sort. When things are really bad you are just existing. Expect the worst, hope for the best. Expect the worst and hope for the best is a great strategy, but panic does not help prepare for the worst... it just hinders our sound management of a problem. My sister had a great saying when facing a crisis: “Panic less, panic better”!
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 28, 2020 1:53:56 GMT -5
As horrible and terrible as this pandemic is, I hope in the end it serves as a catalyst for positive change. As keepers of our brothers/sisters and stewards of this planet, we've been downright deplorable, and this may be the wake-up call we need to get our house in order.
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Post by impulse on Mar 28, 2020 13:30:25 GMT -5
I hope you're right, but I fear those responsible for the bad behavior are digging their heels in and plugging their ears.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 28, 2020 17:14:42 GMT -5
As horrible and terrible as this pandemic is, I hope in the end it serves as a catalyst for positive change. As keepers of our brothers/sisters and stewards of this planet, we've been downright deplorable, and this may be the wake-up call we need to get our house in order. Some people will change and some will stay the same. It's a positive any way you look at it as opposed to no one changing.
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