[General Battuta]

Teenagers are unable to feel love

Bull****.  Please do not tell me what I can and cannot feel.

Something said something similar to me at that age and in retrospect, yeah, I think they were right. The emotions you get as a teenager are not very nuanced.

[sigtau]

Something said something similar to me at that age and in retrospect, yeah, I think they were right. The emotions you get as a teenager are not very nuanced.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.  There are times when I'll be so happy I can't contain myself, and then something as petty as a bad quiz grade in a class I'm doing fine in will completely ruin my mood and put me into a deep irritable state.

It's just a matter of overcoming your own hormones.  I've never been this objective before in my life, especially regarding myself.

[Snail]

Yeah. Mood swings are awesome. Last week I was terminally depressed.

[Klaustrophobia]

Teenagers are unable to feel love

false.

[Scotty]

Am I the only person who finds the implication (that he now is not terminally depressed) highly ironic?

Yeah. Mood swings are awesome. Last week I was terminally depressed.

[Lucika]

Teenagers are unable to feel love

Bull****.  Please do not tell me what I can and cannot feel.

Something said something similar to me at that age and in retrospect, yeah, I think they were right. The emotions you get as a teenager are not very nuanced.

To quote XKCD:



Saying that as being someone who is 16 right now and has pledged himself for 4 years now (on a side note, this is the point where the cynical part takes over and starts to look at the whole hopelessness as something really, really funny).

[Galemp]

Cheers!

[Snail]

Am I the only person who finds the implication (that he now is not terminally depressed) highly ironic?

Yeah. Mood swings are awesome. Last week I was terminally depressed.

I don't see the irony. I'd absolutely love an explanation.

[Polpolion]

It's funny. Despite how people say teenagers are incapable of that kind of refined (for lack of a better word) love, they always seem to be just as bummed when things don't work as everyone else. I'm not saying that teenagers generally can feel the same way about their partners as say people in their 20s and 30s, but it's a shame to see people dismiss teenage emotion when teenagers feel it anyway, regardless of how mature they are.

[General Battuta]

I think teenagers are absolutely capable of that crazy burn that's, like, the first stage of the solid rocket booster of love. But as a teen, looking back, I personally - can't speak for all teens - didn't have the nuance and depth necessary to build a lasting relationship that could tolerate all sorts of nasty bumps and mundane spats. It was hot or cold, no mix.

And I was a pretty thoughtful introspective guy too.

[Nuclear1]

solid rocket booster of love.

SKKYYYYYYY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT

[sigtau]

Well, see, the difference here is that it's someone that I've been trying to get to for a very long time, so I'm willing to bet that this one might last longer than expected.

If I was a missed opportunity, I better make damn sure I make it even better than that.

[Klaustrophobia]

I think teenagers are absolutely capable of that crazy burn that's, like, the first stage of the solid rocket booster of love. But as a teen, looking back, I personally - can't speak for all teens - didn't have the nuance and depth necessary to build a lasting relationship that could tolerate all sorts of nasty bumps and mundane spats. It was hot or cold, no mix.

And I was a pretty thoughtful introspective guy too.

my current.... interest shall we say started when I was 16.  back then maybe it was only a "hey, i'd like to date her" thing but it's certainly more than that now.  and when i realized that i was still in my teens.

[sigtau]

Then perhaps I should change my conjecture.

Teenagers are unable to feel the desire to keep a long-term relationship unless they've already been able to keep one and suppress their own instinctive desires to break off at the first sign of a bump in the road--in other words, if they were able to get over themselves, then there's a chance that it could easily be something more than just a simple "Hey, I like you."

[General Battuta]

I think teenagers are absolutely capable of that crazy burn that's, like, the first stage of the solid rocket booster of love. But as a teen, looking back, I personally - can't speak for all teens - didn't have the nuance and depth necessary to build a lasting relationship that could tolerate all sorts of nasty bumps and mundane spats. It was hot or cold, no mix.

And I was a pretty thoughtful introspective guy too.

my current.... interest shall we say started when I was 16.  back then maybe it was only a "hey, i'd like to date her" thing but it's certainly more than that now.  and when i realized that i was still in my teens.

Yeah but did you enter into said relationship in the teens?

[Klaustrophobia]

in a manner of speaking.  in any event, the status of the relationship doesn't change the emotion.

[Stormkeeper]

Well, as of this recent saturday I'm officially out of my teen years ... Well, so says my parents.

[General Battuta]

in a manner of speaking.  in any event, the status of the relationship doesn't change the emotion.

Sure it does!

[iamzack]

Love is pointless. It can only end in trauma.

[StarSlayer]

pain is weakness leaving your body