Wednesday, November 02, 2005

liking

What is it with teenagers?
How come you can't just like someone as a friend. How come you can't respect someone and think they're cool or funny. You have to 'fancy' them.
Abby said that Dan always talks about me at school. She says, some people were talking and reckons he 'fancies me or something'?
Don't worry Dan, I don't think that at all, (FFS) but this is the kind of thing that makes teenagers back away.
Horror, they think I fancy blah blah (whoever) I better not talk to them ever again. The embarrassment. The shame.
Imagine, having a friend... Of the same sex and being caught of all horrors hugging them... Or linking arms or some other thing we aren't meant to do within our personal spaces.
Imagine being called gay or a lesbian.. Then feeling like in order to conform to peer pressure we must never exert such an overt display of affection again?
being bad is more fun than goodBeing a teen is great... It's about learning and exploring and being a bloody good individual(and by good I do not mean angelic)
There are none so cruel as kids. Comments can ruin a kids childhood. (btw I do not think of you lot as kids ok?)
I thought, honestly, that I was fat ugly and vile as a kid.
I never had a boyfriend at school. I didn't have that many friends.
I was subdued and undermined. By my peers.
It was only as I got older that I realised that if I was open and friendly and chilled that people liked me for who I was. I was great.
I wasn't an ugly child. I got the pictures to prove it. But I never made the most of myself. I didn't want to draw attention to me, just in case someone was mean.
How dreadful...
I think today's teens are more aware of peer pressure and more tolerant of one another. Though even my own lovely Abby has her moments. What about the lovely 'H' who came to the party?
He liked Abby but she'd tell him to his face to sod off, she'd rather go out with a camel than him.
I always hoped that her comments wouldn't damage his lovely psyche for life.
Dan thinks I'm funny and clever (maybe not as clever as he thinks he is ;)
Maybe we got something in common... He's a crazy loony too.
I like him. But I like Paul, Amy, Natz (even though she refused to come to my house) and the rest of them too.
So be nice to Dan, he's loverly. Damage his psyche and I'll bite you.
This is the gospel according to Trinity.

ps... I have just had a long bubbly bath. I also used a face pack, one of those make your skin feel a million dollar. I was laid back chilling in the bath, when Danielle wanders in and tells me I look like Bubbles from Little Britain.
So now I feel ugly.
I'm sulking now.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The great myth. The young are flexible and open minded and the older one gets the more conservative one gets.

So many accepted wisdoms are total nonsense. The young are hidebound by convention and terrified of being different or ridiculed by their peers.

This obsession with what other people think of you usually diminishes with age. One also becomes more tolerant of those things that do not threaten you.

Anonymous said...

So now I know