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"Misspent Youth" is the Sunday Scribblings topic.
Hmmmmm... I am wondering .... DID I Miss Spend my youth? S.S. asks ... What kind of kid were you? Well, I was a VERY cautious kid. Looking back I can definitely say I spent too much time being cautious and worrying. I remember when we moved across town and I had to attend a new middle school. After about a week a girl I had just met asked me to come to her sleep over party. I said I have to ask my mom. My mom said "sure" but the next day I went to school and told her I wasn't allowed because My mom didn't know her family. How weird was I ?? I wanted my mom to say yes but I also wanted her to ask all the right 'mom' questions and statements of concern... ( which I of course am very good at now that I am a Mom... ) WHAT IS HER NAME/ WHERE DOES SHE LIVE/WILL HER PARENTS BE HOME/ I NEED TO MEET THEM /WHAT IS THEIR PHONE NUMBER/WHO WILL BE THERE/CALL ME IF YOU'RE UNCOMFORTABLE/ .... Who knows I could have had a great time and met more new friends. This is only one example of my weird cautiously spent youth.
My One huge regret or should I say THE main wasteful Squandering of my youth, was that I didn't attend college. At home It wasn't even discussed, EVER. I think now of how terrible it was that even at school a guidance counselor or a teacher never encouraged me. I wasn't a great student but only because I attended high school to basically socialize and ogle boys. I had a great method of cutting which never led to detention. ( which I will not reveal while I still have a kid in H.S.!) I know I had potential, Every report card, Every teacher... the same words "not working up to her potential". Geeez, What a stupid, cautious, weird kid. If I could go back I would have absorbed every lesson, every bit of information. I would have pursued college. I can't go back and do it again and who knows, if I would have taken a different path and gone off to college, I maybe wouldn't have met my husband and had all those great teenage years of his passionate kisses. hmmmm....... Educated? Loved? Educated? Loved? Come to think of it... I spent my youth well- I'm a well loved Dumb-Dumb!! :~))
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Oh Lucy we ARE so much alike....haha!! And that's all I will say about that! Excellent fun post....kisses first....you can learn anytime...good kisses are hard to find! We even looked the same when we were young! Thankfully I had a mother who asked the right questions, only because she didn't have a mom that did! You were a wise old soul at such a young age! I bet you had fun!!!!
Love and hugs Sherrie
No Lucy, you are no dumb-dumb. YOU are a well-loved, well-educated (you do NOT need to go to college to be well-educated...you can do it on your own as you did!), incredibly intelligent, wonderfully witty and beautifully caring woman. Plus, you're a natural at writing and do a better job at it than many English majors I've met. So there.
xoxoxox, Jenny P.S. And one more thing...you were smart to know the worth of passionate kisses and a handsome partner for life.
I had an extremely overprotective mother. How I resented it at the time, but now that I am a parent I can appreciate her well placed concerns.
all i can say is if that is your husband in that picture... rock on!!!!!! you done good.....
dumb-dumb? I think NOT! Nice post, full of wise stuff and good thought processing...
You and your husband are so cute in that picture.
I was over cautious as a child and teenager too.
No dumb-dumb you. College, for me, was just a party time. Sounds like you learned a lot without it.
So interesting reading everyone's reflections on their youthful years. You know, Lucy, it's never too late to get an education. Then you can have both!! I had a dad who went to medical school when I was in grade school and a mom who went to law school when I was in high school. For me, it took 11 years to get my college degree because I took classes part-time while raising my kids. There's always a way! But if you don't pursue that path, there are still many other adventures you can have!! xx, JP/deb
i had the mom who asked ALL the questions and it drove me crazy but i do the same with my son, tee hee ..
i had plenty of misspent youth going on, sadly. but i did go to school and am still paying for it working in a job i don't love ~ i think you did just fine :) and you're doing what you love ... i think you're the smart one for sure!!
xox
Thanks so much everyone! Jane Poe- You're so right, my eldest son ALWAYS tells me that.
You are soooo not a dumb-dumb.
I was even more cautious than you - wouldn't know how to cut class even now, asked permission for everything. So sad.
I am sure that on some weird level we are carbon copies of each other! Seriously, I could have written this post!
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