Ah being a teenager.

I remember it vividly. Everyone was a complete nobber and nowhere near as grown up or clever as I. This list of excerpts from a new book is as revealing as it is funny. If only I possessed the teen diary of my fourteen year old self. Oh, the scorn and ridicule I could pour on that little twat. Not that he was any worse than the others, it’s just that round about that time everything seems so important. It is not until you get older that you realise that life is far too important to take that seriously.

I’m particularly fond of the list that appears about halfway down. The delicious angst of it all.

Of course, I know supposed grown-ups that respond like this now.

Work experience is such a pain

Parents are so unreasonable

Life is disorganised

I’m far too immature

I’m too fat!

Keep being called a goth

Never got any money

Tired all the time

Bunk a lot now

Smoke quite a lot

Started drinking regularly

Keep on crying all the time

[From Opening from the album “Glassworks” by Philip Glass

[Edit: It seems that I am still able to be inadvertently pompous, listening to Philip Glass indeed!)

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