EEEk ... I found my diaries from when I was 13 - 16 years old!!

[U2_rocks]

It was so weird to read all the drama that a teen goes through! I'm going to keep those and read them again when my kids approach their teen years - it may help me understand what they're going through!

What was funny was the fickle friendships I had with this one girl, who used to stop speaking to me for a day or two over nothing really. Very strange!And I forgot that drinking was completely acceptable at 16 (and even 15). House parties had beer at the parents' blessing! I hated beer, so the closest I got was shandy - mixing beer with ginger ale or Sprite.

I laughed over all the boys I liked, and how excited I was when they talked to me etc.! I was forever plotting ways to run into them, get them to dance with me etc.

What a laugh I had today!

 

[MinnyGranny62]

How neat, I don't even want to know what was in mine. My DM used to find them and read them. Come to think about it maybe I do want to know what I wrote a thousand years ago.

 

[Mish19]

A few months ago I found two bags full of letters from friends and boys. I was amazed at all the drama I had with friends. We all used to fold our notes like fort knox and I can still remember how to fold them that way.

 

[Martha7]

Eeks! I think I burned mine long ago! I have vivid memories however, of going into the bathroom after my first kiss and looking at my face to see if it looked different. What a total dork!

 

[U2_rocks]

You guys are too funny!

I used to analyze everything to death - everything the boy said (could it mean something?), the amount of time they looked at me (he keeps looking at me - could he like me?) etc.

My first real kiss came from a boy I was not at all attracted to at a party - he backed me up against a piano and just "dropped it in" (as we used to say)! I was repulsed, fascinated and somewhat flattered!

As teens we used to embarrass each other terribly by doing all sorts of things to let certain boys know who had crushes on them. Many a boy found out I liked them via shenanigans perpetrated by other girls I knew!

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

What a treasure you found. Think of how much fun it will be to read them again in 20 years.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I read my high school journals a few months ago, when I was 14-17. I was shocked!!!! I had no self-esteem and I honestly don't remember being so depressed (at least as much as I sound in my journals)!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I kept pretty extensive journals when I was in high school and just after graduation. At the time I thought I would want to keep them forever. But after about 10 years I was so ashamed of what was in them I ran them through the shredder. I am REALLY glad they aren't laying around where DH or DS could stumble across them.

 

[mom2grace]

I recently found mine as well. I have a daughter now, and I hope they will be helpful to me and DH when she becomes a teenager, in only 8 years!

Maybe they will be helpful for her as well, after I censor them!

 

[tiggersmom2]

I burned my diaries when I was 18!

 

[KarenAylwood]

I burned my diaries when I was 18!

I got REAALLLLY close to doing that!! I actually ripped out the pages of the one I had from when I was 16-17, but I recently found the one where I was 12-14!!! I was home in March and found it in a drawer.

It was so weird to read. I read about my first kiss (ughhhh) and ALL the boys I liked. Geez. There were boys in there I didn't even remember liking! I swear, if a guy looked at me I'd write it in that freaking journal (which was covered w/ Mickey Mouse faces, might I add ). I even read about how we put my dog to sleep- I was bawling like a baby just reading about it.

Then the next page was a few weeks later after calming down from it, back to the boys again!!

I even wrote in it about how I had re-read the first half of the diary and hoped that my "future husband and kids don't think I'm crazy... but that I kind of am... so I guess that's ok" or something of that nature

 

[drakethib]

How many "I Love David Cassidy" inserts were there?