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So I just realized that come December I'll be turning twenty. I won't be a teenager any more. I kind of makes me feel old (especially since my boyfriend is just turning 18 in July...). I don't know. I kind of feel like it's been wasted, like I haven't done any of the normal stupid teenager things and soon my chance to live that life will be gone.
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But...who says you have to eat smoothies instead of icecream? The 'real' world? The 'normal' people? If there is anything that you truly get to learn when you grow up, its that the 'real' world doesn't matter. The best, most interesting people I know are the ones who can grow up and feel happy with themselves.
Sure, we don't get to be 'innocent' any more. We've learned to much! But that doesn't mean we can take ourselves to seriously. I've been ordering happy meals since I was ten, and if I must call them 'order number 9' instead of 'I want the boys toy', who cares? They're still happy meals to me!
As for feeling like your teenage years have been wasted...is there anything you really, really missed doing? Do you really want to get plastered at a party, or get arrested? ^.^; I think the important things about being a teenager, like finding your own interests and a group of friends who understand, you've already acomplished.
We'll always have regrets; its part of being human. But writing off our younger life as being a 'failure' is a bad idea. Its important to remember the good bits, and don't dwell on the bad!
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