Remember When?

So, today I woke up irritatingly early. Saturday morning, 7am - wide awake. After watching Breakfast News on the BBC for a while (and quickly getting bored because the programme is only comprised of 15 minutes of content repeated over and over again) I got to thinking.

For some reason the song Two Princes by the Spin Doctors popped into my head. It came out in 1993 (I was 14 or 15) and back then I thought I was *very* grown up.

Of course, I wasn’t. But, in my head, I had it all sorted.

I’m now 31, and strangely, the older I get, the less I think I know.

They say life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. I’m not sure I’ve ever been much of planner - but, nonetheless I think it’s somewhat snuck up on me.

So today I was thinking a little about who I was back then, what I thought/believed in etc. Now, obviously I don’t know what you were like aged 14, but I’m wondering if you were anything like me?

Remember when?

1. You secretly thought you might end up marrying your first boyfriend/girlfriend (delete as appropriate)
2. You thought you were a bit fat even though you only weighed 7 and a half stone (or 44 kilos)
3. You wondered if your spots would ever clear up
4. Having an older boyfriend was the coolest thing ever - and it didn’t occur to you to wonder what a twenty-something man would want with a 15 year old
5. You’d kiss for hours and wind up with an ugly rash around your mouth
6. It was perfectly acceptable to ‘pop upstairs’ with your boyfriend at parties - then share the sordid details with your friends
7. You’d steal booze from your parents liquor cabinet and then top up the spirit bottles with water so they wouldn’t notice what was missing
8. Martini and lemonade was sophisticated
9. You’d pretend to like lager or beer even though it tasted rancid to you
10. You thought that your parents were really unreasonable because they wouldn’t let you go out dressed like a lap dancer
11. You never wore a coat - even in the middle of Winter
12. You threw up, but then carried on kissing anyway
13. Fidelity really wasn’t in your vocabulary
14. Menthol cigarettes made your head spin
15. You’d get home drunk but try to pretend you were sober in front of your parents
16. You’d spend hours making mix tapes and/or trying to record songs off of the radio
17. You thought you’d never recover from your broken heart
18. You’d spend hours at Kensington Market trying to figure out how to best spend your £20
19. You’d make yourself a new fake id at least once per month
20. You were certain that no one (particularly not your parents) could possibly understand you

So my loves - sound anything like you? Hit up the comments