Describe your teenage years

[Melas]

I always thought you were japanese... MY NS LIFE IS A LIE!!!

I've stated several times that I am from Argentina.

You have also mentioned several times that you are a samurai... oh well sounds like you had fun,my main problem is that I dont have a 'real' group of friends just different people I might hang out with,since I was betrayed by my 1st one (ditched me for no reason) and got seperated from my 2nd one (they leave kinda far,no common activites,werent that close anyways)

[The Three Cantons]

I've stated several times that I am from Argentina.

You have also mentioned several times that you are a samurai... oh well sounds like you had fun,my main problem is that I dont have a 'real' group of friends just different people I might hang out with,since I was betrayed by my 1st one (ditched me for no reason) and got seperated from my 2nd one (they leave kinda far,no common activites,werent that close anyways)

Every and each one of you has better experiences than me.

[Melas]

I am in my teenage years..I am 17 year old from Helvetia(Switzerland)....


My country is boring as hell,nuff ' said.

Also I was so shy I first kissed a girl at 16......

We greeks still call you helvets,nice to see you kept the name,unlike those french

[Alaje]

It was shitty, and the cause of my suicidal period. That's about all I'm willing to share.

Teenage years: hard for teenagers, just as hard for their periods

Uh...I'm male.

[Melas]

You have also mentioned several times that you are a samurai... oh well sounds like you had fun,my main problem is that I dont have a 'real' group of friends just different people I might hang out with,since I was betrayed by my 1st one (ditched me for no reason) and got seperated from my 2nd one (they leave kinda far,no common activites,werent that close anyways)

Every and each one of you has better experiences than me.

Depends,my main probelm is that they are dull,spend too much time alone and have no real friends.I was never abused or had to work and I am grateful for that.So whats your deal?

[Page]

Started with being the shy awkward kid in middle school, then the summer between middle and high school I got into punk music and left-wing politics and I was then the weird kid in my freshman class reading Essays on Anarchism by Emma Goldman during study hall, and I was a vegetarian and into radicalism. Also realized I was never a Christian and never believed in god, but I went through some shifts between identifying with atheism, pantheism, agnosticism, though I mainly just identify as an atheist now.

Then throughout that year I experimented little bit with drugs and had a few little insignificant high school relationships. Was mostly still on the fringes of the social circles but I had a few awesome friends from my bus and from around where I live.

Next year I was fed up with it all and quit and got a GED when I was 16, and then I started college classes the year after. Sort of shifted my views from radical to far left liberal, became an omnivore again, played around with a guy I knew in my neighborhood and came to terms with being bisexual. Then when I was 17 I got into an 18 month long distance relationship with a girl from Finland, eventually met up with her in Helsinki but she ended it soon after that, and I sort of struggled to get over it for a few months but I eventually did.

Also my music tastes respectively shifted from mainstream alt rock to punk and hardcore to metal, but now I like some bands from all of the above and a lot have nostalgic memories for me.

[The Three Cantons]

I am in my teenage years..I am 17 year old from Helvetia(Switzerland)....


My country is boring as hell,nuff ' said.

Also I was so shy I first kissed a girl at 16......

We greeks still call you helvets,nice to see you kept the name,unlike those french

I know you do....

Still boring as hell here.

I speak Italian and French and German.

[Samuraikoku]

I've stated several times that I am from Argentina.

You have also mentioned several times that you are a samurai... oh well sounds like you had fun,my main problem is that I dont have a 'real' group of friends just different people I might hang out with,since I was betrayed by my 1st one (ditched me for no reason) and got seperated from my 2nd one (they leave kinda far,no common activites,werent that close anyways)

One needs not be Japanese to be a Samurai.

I'd delve into that further but it exceeds the purposes of your thread.

In any case. I have been through that too, since I started high school in 2001 I never truly had a group. I found that in 2004 and have them ever since. Also, we've had differences with them, yes. But we eventually mended things in time. I won't go into the "time heals all wounds" platitude because it's not always true (I know this from experience too). But it does manage to do a great job at it.

And hey - I'm not the best person out there, and I still got this luck. You can probably do better than I.

[The Three Cantons]

Every and each one of you has better experiences than me.

Depends,my main probelm is that they are dull,spend too much time alone and have no real friends.I was never abused or had to work and I am grateful for that.So whats your deal?

I live in a country which is neutral as shit,no exiting things and we are isolated and most of and that is for the entire world, girls are bitches

[Alaje]

You have also mentioned several times that you are a samurai... oh well sounds like you had fun,my main problem is that I dont have a 'real' group of friends just different people I might hang out with,since I was betrayed by my 1st one (ditched me for no reason) and got seperated from my 2nd one (they leave kinda far,no common activites,werent that close anyways)

One needs not be Japanese to be a Samurai.

I'd delve into that further but it exceeds the purposes of your thread.

In any case. I have been through that too, since I started high school in 2001 I never truly had a group. I found that in 2004 and have them ever since. Also, we've had differences with them, yes. But we eventually mended things in time. I won't go into the "time heals all wounds" platitude because it's not always true (I know this from experience too). But it does manage to do a great job at it.

And hey - I'm not the best person out there, and I still got this luck. You can probably do better than I.

What's with you and Samurais this week?

[Cameroi]

until the year i graduated high school, i was the only kid in my school who's parents did not own a car. i was something of a hermit, though not yet then entirely by choice. i have a very small number of reliable friends. and virtually no access to almost any social interaction outside of the school setting. i did play french horn in the school band. it was my best subject. one of the only two i ever got better then a "c" in.

the year i graduated high school we moved to a very remote railroad company town. i absolutely loved it. except, there were no employment opportunities and my parents were chomping at the bit, as parents tend to when their little darlings reach the age of almost legal adulthood, for me to leave the nest.

i was also living under the damoclian sword of pending conscription. this was the late 60s. viet nam 'war' era. my parents couldn't afford to buy me an educational deferment, and i didn't have the spheroids to attempt to hitch hike to canada.

so i joined the air force to get out of being drafted into the army. this was actually one of the better moves of my life. though it WAS also a tyrannical impositions that i had no obvious practical other choice.

before we moved to norden, from auburn where i graduated, we had been living in colfax, the one in california. small town in the sierras in norther california. did i mention my dad worked for the railraod. telegrapher/towerman/clerk) which means he did everything in the little stations along the line where he worked, that came up during his shift. it also meant we didn't have to live in cities. so my safety valve was that i could and often did, go for long walks by myself out in the woods. to meditates, and not be harrassed, for as long as i was able to stay out there, by the insantiy that is human society in the context of being that age.

there's not a whole lot else to tell. i managed to do a modest amount of model railroading. learned a bit about artistic composition with my camera. spent more time drawing maps of the imaginary model railroads i would someday build. daydreamed that some day we would have these computers that we have now, so that it would become possible to design what i love, without requiring the physical space physical models would require. the space program and civil rights were both big things at the time. and computers like we have now, well there were computers, but there weren't personal computers, there were only huge, astronomically expensive things that large corporations did accounting on, and almost no one else could afford them at all.

then, when i was in the air force, the 4004 chip saw the light of day. i was in electronics. intigrated circuits were something new. the familiar dual in line package hadn't yet become standard for them. round, transistor like packaging was still common for some of them. even the transistor wasn't old yet. even fm sterie was something relatively new. and 8-tracks.

what have i left out? lets see. there was a dog. numerous cats. rattle snakes caught and eaten by the cats. and of course the woods where i took my walks were full of deer and pine martins, porcupines, skunks, and all the wonderful usual diversity of little and not so little, furry creatures, with and without, big sharp teeth, all mostly harmless and none of them, not even bears or mountain lions, wishing me any particular harm.

well like i said, i didn't really have any kind of social life, so there's really nothing to mention about one, because there really just wasn't any.

[Raeyh]

Adulthood may become stagnant and boring, but at least it isn't turbulent and filled with drama like adolescence is.

[Melas]

Depends,my main probelm is that they are dull,spend too much time alone and have no real friends.I was never abused or had to work and I am grateful for that.So whats your deal?

I live in a country which is neutral as shit,no exiting things and we are isolated and most of and that is for the entire world, girls are bitches

N.Korea....

[Stovokor]

Initially violent, sad, cynical, ended on a good note when I went to college. Over all, it needed more alcohol.

[Samuraikoku]

One needs not be Japanese to be a Samurai.

I'd delve into that further but it exceeds the purposes of your thread.

In any case. I have been through that too, since I started high school in 2001 I never truly had a group. I found that in 2004 and have them ever since. Also, we've had differences with them, yes. But we eventually mended things in time. I won't go into the "time heals all wounds" platitude because it's not always true (I know this from experience too). But it does manage to do a great job at it.

And hey - I'm not the best person out there, and I still got this luck. You can probably do better than I.

What's with you and Samurais this week?

This week? You'll notice that I joined NationStates on May 13th 2011. And I was one long before then.

[The Three Cantons]

I live in a country which is neutral as shit,no exiting things and we are isolated and most of and that is for the entire world, girls are bitches

N.Korea....

Yeah...but still we are No.2 worse.

We joined the UN in 2002

[Melas]

Initially violent, sad, cynical, ended on a good note when I went to college. Over all, it needed more alcohol.

By violent you mean getting in fights or bullied/abused?

[Melas]

N.Korea....

Yeah...but still we are No.2 worse.

We joined the UN in 2002

Switzerland or East timor?

[The Three Cantons]

Yeah...but still we are No.2 worse.

We joined the UN in 2002

Switzerland or East timor?

Switzerland

[Kanslavia]

"Hey Kanslavia, wanna do stuff?"
"NO."
"Okay."

I spent a lot of time playing video games.
Video games were terrible in my teenage years.

[Nadkor]

girls are bitches

Really, though?

[Veceria]

I guess there's too much to describe. I had quite nice teenage years, as my parents always cared for me and helped me.
Still developed some more psychological problems during that time, and/or made those I had already worse.

[The Three Cantons]

girls are bitches

Really, though?

Yes really.

The experience shows.....

[Melas]

girls are bitches

Really, though?

Dont be offended but where I come from they are either ugly or bitches,even worse 'ugly bitches'

[Melas]

I guess there's too much to describe. I had quite nice teenage years, as my parents always cared for me and helped me.
Still developed some more psychological problems during that time, and/or made those I had already worse.

Mind going on some detail on this problems?