When you were fourteen years old and in high school.....?

Question

what things did you think about the most? like having a boyfriend or trying to be popular? Were you bullied or loved? You can tell me ANYTHING about your high school experiences. I'm asking because I want to see if I can relate to someone.

Answer 1

Playing video games. Well didn't think much about girls they weren't any attractive ones in my school.

Answer 2

When I was fourteen (this was only two years ago by the way [I'm 16]) I didn't think about any of the stuff that you mentioned. But mostly everyone around me did. Everyone wanted to be popular and almost all of the girls were obsessed with having a boyfriend (and most of them still are). But I'm not that type of kid. When I first started going to public school (I was homeshcooled until I was 12 years old) I was really suprised at how all of the other kids were acting. They seamed so immature and so obsessed with being popular. When I first started public school some people tried to bully me but I ignored it so they stopped because they couldn't get a reaction out of me.

I hope this was a good answer! This was a good question! ^_^

Answer 3

reading novels and playing outside.

Answer 4

When i was that age, i was in the ninth grade...i wanted a boyfriend but i was really unliked so i didnt get one untill later in the year...i acctually had three...lol, i wasnt too concerned about the popularity contest...i just wanted to be myself and if they didnt like me for who i was, i wasnt going to change myself for a bunch of plastic phoneys...

hope this helps!

<3CiCi

Answer 5

Well dear one it has been a long time since I was fourteen and the world in which we live has changed somewhat. I lived in a world without computers, video games,malls, and the like. We had plenty things to occupy or minds, school and chores or jobs at home. Most of the time I thought about being so glad to grow up so I could do what I wanted to do instead of what I had to do. I dreamed of being married to Mr. Right and having someone to love me. I dreamed of a world without dead soldiers coming back in pine boxes from Vietnam. I hated war. I said when we all grow up we won't be involved in war. So much for that, look where we are now and they are still coming home dead.Yes there were bullies and sometime I was bullied. I hated girls who acted like that. They scared me. I tried to stay away from them. I wanted to be a flower child and make love not war. I wanted to wear flowers in my hair and be happy all the time. I live in the South in the state of Mississippi. Vietnam raged but racial war was always there. Fighting became so bad that the National Guard had to escort students to their classes. Hatred is taught and passed down from generation to generation. All I wanted was to listen to motown and dance and -----just be me. I could write forever about thoes times. I still live in my sweet sleepy southern town. Things have changed a lot since the sixties. Both good and bad but I am still here and all I still want is to be loved and be happy. I hope you find happiness and love in your life.

Answer 6

I was pretty repressed.  I didn't fit in, but I wasn't on the radar enough to be an outcast either.  I was smart and looked fine.  I was invisible.  I did what I was supposed to do... went to school, did my homework, got good grades, learned, was interested in my classes.  I had a few regular acquaintances that were quasi-friends.  By that I mean, I was so repressed and invisible that I just morphed to be around them, but didn't really know who I was.  We were all on the swim team together.  I loved to swim and had fun.  I was pretty good, but not great.  Mostly I liked training and being with the team.  I didn't have a boyfriend or a summer job until I was 15 or 16.

I had felt so different from everybody for so long, that it became a way of life to just pass and fit in.  My parents were smart and successful and we were a normal sort of family.  My brother was a year and a half older than I, and we squabbled a little.  Sometimes mom, dad, my brother and I would play board games.  I watched a bit too much tv at times too.  (This was just before the computer era... pong had just come out!!  LOL)  I never acted out nor felt the interest or need to experiment with dangerous behaviors or substances, and worried instead of where that might lead.

I did feel that there was So much more to life than I was living, and I had a feeling, eventually, it would get better.... become more meaningful.

After high school, I went on a foreign exchange program - for a year - to a small town in southern Mexico, where half the people still speak a native language and many of the customs have been preserved.  I have never been the same since!  I found life!!   Since then I've lived and traveled abroad and in the U.S.  I did all kinds of odd jobs to finance it.  Really, I was just doing what everybody else does... working, studying, eating, sleeping, hanging out... except that I kept changing Where I was doing that!  I have come into my own and have explored lots of interests and ideas.  I have found others like me, and others very different from me.  It's all been an incredible journey and just keeps getting better!!   It's been hard at times, but always well worth it.  Life is amazing!