As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.
Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.
I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.
I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
No opposing quotes found.