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writes:Right. I know this is ridiculous, but i feel as though i am having a mid life crisis at eighteen!? I keep thinking i'm so close to being twenty and going off into proper adulthood. That it's making me panic because i want to experience what teenagers are meant to, just have fun and i want to look back and think yeah i did that! It worries me more because you don't get your teen years back and they are supposed to be the best years of your life!When i think about what i want to do as a teenager i think, i want to be sort of wild while i still can. I want to experience so much! But then I don't know what these 'teenage things' that I want to do are? I've done most of what teenagers do or have done... But yet, i still feel as though there is something i'm missing out on and this depresses me. I want to be fully satisfied and think i lived my teenage years to the full..... Reply to this Question
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reader, Philips  +, writes (10 April 2011):
 Its amazing how easily a youngster can get depressed.
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reader, maverick494  +, writes (10 April 2011):
Don't get so hung up about age. There's a reason why many people in their twenties are described as twenty-something. It's because it's very hard to tell how old you are in that decade because you're body is fully developed. I'm 23 and I have a friend who is 29 and another who is 19. Noone can tell who is the oldest and who is the youngest when we walk together.
Fun isn't limited to age. Don't think that just because you're entering adulthood that you can't let go and be wild once in a while. It just means that the older you get, the less room you have to hide stupid mistakes behind the innocence of youth.
If you watch "The Rules of attraction" you'll see what these "teenage things" are. Pretty much a combo of getting drunk, partying hard and having a lot of sex and then repeat this cycle over and over again while your eyes are getting redder and redder from the multiple hangovers. If that's your cup of tea, go ahead, but be smart about it.
I travelled a lot when I was a teen, because I could afford to. At that age you have so much free time on your hands and aren't tied down to work or a career. That was my 'teenage thing'. So instead of getting hung up about what others do or your image of what you're supposed to do, do what you WANT to do. Just be responsible.
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