What were things that were important to you as a teenager, that no longer are?

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To me it was having a boyfriend and being thin.
Thought that if I’d had those, everything would be fine 🫣🙄

Also artist, actors and bands: had to know everything about them.
Now I can just appreciate their talents, don’t need to know anything about their personal lives.

Having Kickers shoes.

But when you're a teenager you are convinced everyone is looking at you. I can't have been the only 15-year-old who thought she looked great, tripped over in the street and was so embarrassed she didn't walk down the same way again for at least a week. But when you grow up you realise no one gives a shit.

I have boyfriend, and I am thin. But these were definitely also important to me as a teen.

I remember thinking it was important to have an expensive engagement ring/flashy wedding otherwise what was the point whereas now I think the money is better spent elsewhere and the most important thing is loving and committing to each other.

I wrote in a diary as a teenager that the only worthwhile pursuit was being an intellectual.

I still love to know things but I’m not as pretentious anymore, thank god.

Oh and designer brands!

I thought buying jimmy choos at 16 made me cool. I wore them once 😂

Having my hair straightened or curled within an inch of its life every day 😂
Looking cool
Desperately wanting everyone to really like and accept me
Failed at much of the above 😂

What people thought of me. Embarrassingly at one point I had a fictional social life more complex than your average box set, just to avoid saying that I had spent the evening watching TV with my Gran. Now, I would give anything to spend an evening with her again ❤

Dd doesn’t give a shit about aldi crisps in her lunchbox. Would have been social death for me (low income primary).

Fear of falling down the stairs (specifically the massive concrete flight at the school entrance), and trying to be more popular than I was.

😂😂😂😂

Being popular or liked by the boys - never was

Wanting to be visible - never was unless of course I was the butt of the jokes

Owning Kickers, Bemetton, Naf Naf, Oilily, Nike Air Herachi's - never did and hated own clothes day where the popular pupils would scrutinise your outfits

Age 11 to 16 were the longest and worst five years of my life.

I wanted to be in a band, so badly. I played bass and guitar, not very well during the post-punk era. I was in a couple of short lived bands. At some point in my early 20s I thought that's it, I'll never be any good/make it and completely stopped playing. Then in my 50s I took up learning to play again, but a different genre and instruments. Suddenly it 'clicked'. Now I've been going a few years and still absolutely love it, play with others and get so much satisfaction and a good social life out of music. So sometimes a teenage passion can come back in a different form.

But all the crushes and other aspects of being a teen? I don't miss that at all.

Football

Used to play every day, whether a kick about with mates or a full 11 a side on a Sunday.

Passionately go to my teams matches most weekends, knew all the players etc.

Now, I just follow the results online and the only games I go to are DDs. I feel far more passion for her team than I did supporting my professional league team.

I can't remember the last time I kicked a ball in a match.

A tan and having new clothes every time I went out.

I care about neither now!

Friends.

As a teenager friends were my be all and end all and I had an abundance of them. Now I don't have any and it doesn't bother me at all.

I do have a Husband, two Sons, a dog, a job and a busy life though!

Branded clothes, not designer but decent sports brands etc. Couldn’t care less now, although I always have decent shoes.

Having hair looks likes Charlene from neighbours.wanting to go out with the boy who looked like Marti Pellow.

Being embarrassed about being seen with supermarket own brand food in my lunch box and having shoes from Primark. I was so consumed with shame about those I ate lunch in secret on my way home from school—I was always starving!