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For those of you that are still in your teenage years, let me tell you something about being an adult.
Imagine you watch a movie. Later, you end up watching that movie again. Sometimes several times. In said movie, some character makes some dumb mistake and it's so frustrating that no amount of yelling at the screen is going to change the outcome. The movie plays out like it always does. That's kind of what it's like watching teenagers make the same assumptions about the world and mistakes you made when YOU were a teenager. There were adults around telling you IT IS NOT LIKE THAT/DO NOT DO THAT but you brush them off because ~you know everything~.
But yeah, it can be frustrating. It's not just seeing it on the site like I joke about in the comic - in real life I have had to watch my nephew go through the hot and cold of teenage relationships and how devastating those first heartbreaks are. You can't explain to a young kid about not putting all your eggs in one basket and how it'll make a fall harder, because they feel so intensely that they will NEVER not feel amazing and endeared with this basket.
Also yeah I feel crotchety for posting two whiny Pie Bites in a row. Coming up this week: Finished commissions that are not negative Nancies.
Imagine you watch a movie. Later, you end up watching that movie again. Sometimes several times. In said movie, some character makes some dumb mistake and it's so frustrating that no amount of yelling at the screen is going to change the outcome. The movie plays out like it always does. That's kind of what it's like watching teenagers make the same assumptions about the world and mistakes you made when YOU were a teenager. There were adults around telling you IT IS NOT LIKE THAT/DO NOT DO THAT but you brush them off because ~you know everything~.
But yeah, it can be frustrating. It's not just seeing it on the site like I joke about in the comic - in real life I have had to watch my nephew go through the hot and cold of teenage relationships and how devastating those first heartbreaks are. You can't explain to a young kid about not putting all your eggs in one basket and how it'll make a fall harder, because they feel so intensely that they will NEVER not feel amazing and endeared with this basket.
Also yeah I feel crotchety for posting two whiny Pie Bites in a row. Coming up this week: Finished commissions that are not negative Nancies.
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I also kind of think putting TOGETHER FOREVER is like bragging the Titanic was unsinkable.
Then again I guess WE ARE ENJOYING EACH OTHER'S COMPANY AT THIS TIME AND IT'D BE SWELL IF IT LASTED A LONG TIME BUT WE ARE BEING REALISTIC ABOUT IT AND JUST LOVING IT FOR WHAT IT IS NOW is a bit long for a profile.
Then again I guess WE ARE ENJOYING EACH OTHER'S COMPANY AT THIS TIME AND IT'D BE SWELL IF IT LASTED A LONG TIME BUT WE ARE BEING REALISTIC ABOUT IT AND JUST LOVING IT FOR WHAT IT IS NOW is a bit long for a profile.
Why are my eyebrows so big? I don't like that! We have professional makeup people here, but I still look a hundred and forty. Why is this laptop on my set? And why has my set been getting smaller every year. They tell me this show is in wide screen now. 720p, 1080p, I think those are just phrases the salespeople at Best Buy use to confound us. What's wrong with a good old square TV? Squares are more comfortable. Comfortable like a Lay-Z-Boy. But that reminds me of all these rap musicians who spell their names wrong...
I actually only knew the guy's name most of my life, and I'd mix him up with Mickey Rooney.
Then one day my brother linked me to some old 60 minutes rant of his about STUPID TECHNOLOGY! ALL I NEED IS MY TYPEWRITER! YOUNG PEOPLE! BAH! and I have never mixed the two up again.
Then one day my brother linked me to some old 60 minutes rant of his about STUPID TECHNOLOGY! ALL I NEED IS MY TYPEWRITER! YOUNG PEOPLE! BAH! and I have never mixed the two up again.
ah man i know exactly what this is like.
my step sister has been doing this, except then the guy cheated on her several times and she STILL wants to date the guy. its maddening and i try to give her advice of what she can do rather then no dont do this stop being dumb.
but yea, lol it just suucks
my step sister has been doing this, except then the guy cheated on her several times and she STILL wants to date the guy. its maddening and i try to give her advice of what she can do rather then no dont do this stop being dumb.
but yea, lol it just suucks
It's true...but at the same time, I can't be arsed to care about what people post on their profile page. They'll change their mate to a different user icon next week and maybe in a couple years, they'll learn.
In real life is a totally different story. I'm constantly annoyed by my teenage cousin's Taylor Swift-like stream of boyfriends being gushed about on my Facebook feed. I'm this close to hiding her. If FA shoved stuff like that in my face on my notifications page, I'd lose my shit.
In real life is a totally different story. I'm constantly annoyed by my teenage cousin's Taylor Swift-like stream of boyfriends being gushed about on my Facebook feed. I'm this close to hiding her. If FA shoved stuff like that in my face on my notifications page, I'd lose my shit.
I will give props to those that do go "This is an Online Only relationship" cause theres often a chance they already have a relationship, they just want another one on the side.
At least I was taught how relationships really work, though my grandma is right on one thing "Get with someone that have one thing that while doesnt drive you mad it does get to you but you can over look it cause its not that annoying" Or in other words "have someone with a flaw, as they are better than someone that is flawless"
At least I was taught how relationships really work, though my grandma is right on one thing "Get with someone that have one thing that while doesnt drive you mad it does get to you but you can over look it cause its not that annoying" Or in other words "have someone with a flaw, as they are better than someone that is flawless"
People like their unrealistic fantasy worlds, so why tell them the honest and cold truth that they will never turn into a half wolf half man beast with a 10 foot cock?...wait...never mind...
Yeah young love gets a bit clouded at times.
Usually best to let them touch the stove a few times and hope they realize before their fingerprints have become untraceable.
Yeah young love gets a bit clouded at times.
Usually best to let them touch the stove a few times and hope they realize before their fingerprints have become untraceable.
this....just...I
too...too true.
I have a friend, 16...all his GF does is fuck his life up. (Seriously, a few days ago she gave him his THIRD pregnancy scare!!! and trust me it's HER that is the cause of this. once she did it just to "Test his love for her" and the next two times were cuz she was too dumb to use birth control) and he WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME.
"But we're going to be together forever! A dragon finds his one true love, and they do not break. A dragon's love is Eternal" and yes he takes his draconic stuff THAT seriously into a relationship with someone IRL. it's seriously just...EUGH. I literally after the third heartbreak couldnt stand seeing him hurt anymore, and said "look, until she's out of your lfie, I dont want to talk to you anymore." Cuz any time she was brought up in conversation it just led to me and him yelling at eachother
too...too true.
I have a friend, 16...all his GF does is fuck his life up. (Seriously, a few days ago she gave him his THIRD pregnancy scare!!! and trust me it's HER that is the cause of this. once she did it just to "Test his love for her" and the next two times were cuz she was too dumb to use birth control) and he WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME.
"But we're going to be together forever! A dragon finds his one true love, and they do not break. A dragon's love is Eternal" and yes he takes his draconic stuff THAT seriously into a relationship with someone IRL. it's seriously just...EUGH. I literally after the third heartbreak couldnt stand seeing him hurt anymore, and said "look, until she's out of your lfie, I dont want to talk to you anymore." Cuz any time she was brought up in conversation it just led to me and him yelling at eachother
OH HEAVENS TO BUTTSY YES.
I never got to date while I was a teenager. Although this sucked in many ways, it did come with some rather significant silver lining - seeing my classmates play out the same sad farce over and over helped give me much more realistic expectations about relationships. In all of my dating experiences to date, this has proved invaluable.
I never got to date while I was a teenager. Although this sucked in many ways, it did come with some rather significant silver lining - seeing my classmates play out the same sad farce over and over helped give me much more realistic expectations about relationships. In all of my dating experiences to date, this has proved invaluable.
This is true.
When I was 13, I was dating my sister's friend, because said friend said that she would kill herself if I didn't.
Well, it we'd from forced date to "I like hanging out (but still not girlfriend material), to her saying that we'd be together forever, and me going along with it.
A few months later... Nooooope. Broke up.
Forever was five months.
When I was 13, I was dating my sister's friend, because said friend said that she would kill herself if I didn't.
Well, it we'd from forced date to "I like hanging out (but still not girlfriend material), to her saying that we'd be together forever, and me going along with it.
A few months later... Nooooope. Broke up.
Forever was five months.
The other painful thing about watching teenagers do stupid shit is that it reminds me of the times when my teenaged self brushed off adult advice on that same stupid shit. And then I cringe. I am so grateful that the internet wasn't around when I was a teenager, I dread to think what sort of terrible record I'd have left behind if I'd had a live journal instead of a paper journal.
Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs -- sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes -- but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)
-Lazarus Long
-Lazarus Long
Hey Pie, hope you get this message and read it. Know how that is on both sides of the fence, being the stupid teenager and being the bitter adult looking back on those stupid mistakes. While it's cathartic to vent about this crap, realize that even this awesome art message won't change anything, teenagers will go on to make their stupid mistake in the name of 'truwuv.' It's how they'll learn, making that stupid mistake. And, y'know, maybe someday there'll be a teenage couple who won't fall apart so stupidly that isn't fictional!
God I'm stupid for using the word 'stupid' a lot, haha. Anyway, love the art, love the vent, but...serenity prayer for an unknown religion and all that.
Accept the things you cannot change.
Change the things you can.
Learn the difference.
Hope you find peace.
God I'm stupid for using the word 'stupid' a lot, haha. Anyway, love the art, love the vent, but...serenity prayer for an unknown religion and all that.
Accept the things you cannot change.
Change the things you can.
Learn the difference.
Hope you find peace.
I actually did know someone who met his sweetheart when they were both 16, and they were together and engaged in their...30s?The only reason the wedding didn't go through was because he passed away..
They were a hell of an exception tho; most other times that demograph does exactly what u said...myself included. D8
They were a hell of an exception tho; most other times that demograph does exactly what u said...myself included. D8
what's even funnier is when they're in their early 20s lmao
people think relationships are all serendipitous forever n ever but the moment some REAL WORLD SHIT happens, they fall apart about 95% of the time
sure the serendipitousness (????) is nice, but relationships aren't all about smoochin and tellin everyone in the world how *~*IN LUV*~* you are every single day
people think relationships are all serendipitous forever n ever but the moment some REAL WORLD SHIT happens, they fall apart about 95% of the time
sure the serendipitousness (????) is nice, but relationships aren't all about smoochin and tellin everyone in the world how *~*IN LUV*~* you are every single day
Like, I'm guilty of being caught up in being in a relationship n all that happy sappy shit n have done some really dumb stuff but there comes a certain point where that has to take a backseat to actually being an adult. n this goes double if you happen to move in together
like, if you can't even sort your own shit out, you got absolutely no business bringing another person into your life
like, if you can't even sort your own shit out, you got absolutely no business bringing another person into your life
Whaaaah, I hope you don't mind me putting my opinion in! If teenagers listened to us and our opinions of their relationships, they'd never experience dating and wouldn't learn to grow into adults that have mature relationships. These awkward first relationships are a stepping stone to growing up. I looked back on my first relationship and saw everything I did wrong and learned I can't be like that anymore. We can all say that about our first relationships. Those with long term successful relationships owe a lot to their first go around.
That doesn't change us from seeing young 'love' as silly, but hopefully people will criticize them less.
That doesn't change us from seeing young 'love' as silly, but hopefully people will criticize them less.
Eh, romantic relationships are pretty much overrated anyways. No stories out there ever present a realistic look at them, instead selling a lie that everyone seems to believe in. It's a load of bull.
I, for one, am happy to have never fallen in love. Nothing worthwhile's being missed.
I, for one, am happy to have never fallen in love. Nothing worthwhile's being missed.
OH god, when your seeing teenagers make the same mistake you did, its just like watching a horrid train wreck. No matter what you try and do the conductor is ignoring you so you cant help. You just have to sit and watch it crash in good old slow motion and hope the damage isnt too bad at the end of it all. Though, I always think first loves are needed when your a teenager. It prepares you for mature relationships as an adult.
As a teenager who's been in a relationship for almost a year now, it annoys me too when I see anyone who gets all lovey dovey when they've only been together for a rather short time Heck, I knew my mate for a month before we were mates, and it seems strange to me when I see people just jump right in. And then what also seems weird is that my relationship has lasted this long, because it seems that all teenage relationships are doomed to fail. I feel like a record breaker; an anomaly of teenage relationships. This, of course, is a good thing, since most teenage relationships are very short and shallow.
The way I've been phrasing it lately (and understand I do NOT intend this as an insult) is that you are never a bigger idiot than when you're a teenager. You can't help it, biological factors are responsible for making you that way. This situation falls under being a dumb teenager and not being able to help it. And yeah, it's definitely frustrating as the adult to watch it happen again and again, but you just kind of have to throw your hands up in the air and let it happen.
Teenagers never learning from the mistakes of their parents is the only thing as reliable as death and taxes. Shakespeare himself wrote a story about a pair of stupid teenagers who believed they were 2GETHER4EVAR that ended about as badly as it possibly can, and four hundred years later, even grown adults completely miss the irony and think it's a touching love story. So if anything people are even stupider nowadays.
Me, I made a completely different set of mistakes when I was a teenager. I had no pretensions about other people's ability to stand to be around me long term.
Me, I made a completely different set of mistakes when I was a teenager. I had no pretensions about other people's ability to stand to be around me long term.
tbha
Well let me just put it this way, the chick I fell in love with as a late teen/young adult, is the same chick who im still in love with and is my girlfriend and so far its been like 7 years since we've been around each other.
I think simply generalizing things isnt always the best thing to do. XP
I think simply generalizing things isnt always the best thing to do. XP
We didn't listen when were where told and the next generation isn't going to learn either. They only have so much life experience and from their prospective, in their narrow little world, they know everything.
True love doesn't come when you feel romantic about the other person but rather when you come to the realization "Yeah, I could probably spend the rest of my life with them."
True love doesn't come when you feel romantic about the other person but rather when you come to the realization "Yeah, I could probably spend the rest of my life with them."
It's even worse when you see 13 year olds do it. I have no idea what has happened to the generation bellow me .___.; im 17, i turn 18 in june, and man... i have seen 13 year olds mess up their lives so quickly by going and sleeping with guys they tell them that they love them.. I mean, in the middle school that's right next to my school, there is more pregnant girls there than in the high school! OAO
and when you tell them not to do that sort of thing they are like "OMG IM LIKE, 13! IM AN ADULT NOW! i know what im doing gosh! i love him and he loves me and there is no way ill get pregnant the first time! and even if i do he'll stay with me and make a family! " then get all upset when they get pregnant and the guy leaves them =___=;
not sure if that's on topic but i wanted to say it >_>
and when you tell them not to do that sort of thing they are like "OMG IM LIKE, 13! IM AN ADULT NOW! i know what im doing gosh! i love him and he loves me and there is no way ill get pregnant the first time! and even if i do he'll stay with me and make a family! " then get all upset when they get pregnant and the guy leaves them =___=;
not sure if that's on topic but i wanted to say it >_>
In my early to mid teens when I was still presenting as an awkward male teenager, no relationship lasted more than a week, some not even past a few days, one not even twenty four hours. This comic was so applicable.
Grew up (in more ways than one) took hormones when I was 18 and acquired legal recognition of a female identity, and met someone online in a forum and found out they were actually a friend of a friend (of a friend's friend and that they actually knew me) and that they lived locally but a bit out of the way in that it takes a daytrip to travel by boat. They were my boyfriend for five years, we didn't even think it would last that long as we were both cynical.
It's like the less you think you have of something, the more it'll surprise you when it still hasn't run out. We still see each other, but after five years we agreed to be non-monogamous, I don't even know how long that'll last as I only know so few other people that are polyamorous, but still it's lasted two years already and we're still quite happy and loving towards one another. Just not exclusively.
Grew up (in more ways than one) took hormones when I was 18 and acquired legal recognition of a female identity, and met someone online in a forum and found out they were actually a friend of a friend (of a friend's friend and that they actually knew me) and that they lived locally but a bit out of the way in that it takes a daytrip to travel by boat. They were my boyfriend for five years, we didn't even think it would last that long as we were both cynical.
It's like the less you think you have of something, the more it'll surprise you when it still hasn't run out. We still see each other, but after five years we agreed to be non-monogamous, I don't even know how long that'll last as I only know so few other people that are polyamorous, but still it's lasted two years already and we're still quite happy and loving towards one another. Just not exclusively.
It's hilarious that I've known many friends who went through this and mocked me for not doing the same as a teenager.
I'm married now, and to a military man at that, we've only been married a month and have already been through some
serious trials concerning all the legal bullshit you have to deal concerning the military and other real life obstacles. Not to mention in-laws.
Thankfully I did know a teen who actually brought me aside and asked me personally how to deal with telling their
girlfriend they just didn't share the same feelings. I walked her through and told her the truth that it wouldn't be easy, but being
honest was the key. When her breakup happened, I made sure to be there for her. It is wiser to be honest and end a relationship than carry on a lie when you don't truly love your partner..I've been in that mess before I met my husband, and when you trap yourself into that situation, it is NOT pretty.
I'm married now, and to a military man at that, we've only been married a month and have already been through some
serious trials concerning all the legal bullshit you have to deal concerning the military and other real life obstacles. Not to mention in-laws.
Thankfully I did know a teen who actually brought me aside and asked me personally how to deal with telling their
girlfriend they just didn't share the same feelings. I walked her through and told her the truth that it wouldn't be easy, but being
honest was the key. When her breakup happened, I made sure to be there for her. It is wiser to be honest and end a relationship than carry on a lie when you don't truly love your partner..I've been in that mess before I met my husband, and when you trap yourself into that situation, it is NOT pretty.
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