I’m trying to think of things that REALLY mattered to me when I was 13; and what was SO UNFAIR, that I would now find hilarious! Think Kevin the teenager. What really mattered to you at 13, that you can now see was just your hormones?
Getting to the teenage disco on a Sunday afternoon being told I couldn't go was the pits, throwing a tantrum and being locked in the front room and told to listen to the record collection was miserable until I realised my Dad was a bit thick, as the living room was on the ground floor and i could jump out - get to the disco and be home before tea. I set the rules then for my younger siblings as they got to that age, I told them, jump out the front window. when we got older and our parents were our 'friends' we told them what we did
//What really mattered to you at 13, that you can now see was just your hormones? //
What really mattered to me at 13 was some sort of love and justice.
It wasn't just my hormones
Now 56 and it still matters!
I was a very non-hormonal well behaved teenager, if a bit too reserved, and never caused hassle at all to my (single parent by then) mother.Even the things that bothered me I never told anyone.
I think Chris Buen and I share the honour of having men we ere at school with much later, sending an intermediary to ask : "do you want to speak to that fellow over there he was at school with you?"
( I will talk to anyone: dog poo in the street and so on)
//being bullied, with absolutely no hope of justice
I think Chris Buen and I share the honour of having men we ere at school with much later, sending an intermediary to ask : "do you want to speak to that fellow over there he was at school with you?"//
Where would we be without him eh?
( I will talk to anyone: dog poo in the street and so on)