I Wish I Could Have Enjoyed My Teens More
By Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
April 26, 2018 2:59pm CST
There was a lot of fun years that I missed out on because I was suffering in numerous ways. When I play songs from the time when I should have been enjoying life, I was just trying not to die.
At 13 I was struggling with the reality of chaos and its finer mechanisms, as well as the various death dreams that latched on because of growing, and that continued through 15. In there I lost use of one of my fingers (at 14, I think) from a severed tendon. I wrecked my knee and would need surgery on it later on when I was 16. I got into my accident before I was 17, and suffered migraines and living difficulties through my early 20s.
Yep, my teens were devoured by injuries and suffering. It would have been nice to have had fun during them!
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
26 Apr 18
Oh. I am sorry to hear that, Master Morgan. You have suffered enough. 
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
27 Apr 18
@OneOfMany as an apprentice, sure. ahaha
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 May 18
@mlgen1037 You're too cute to have misfortune inherited from me.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 May 18
Thanks. I was listening to depressing songs partly, and that was dragging me down a little (and memories from the songs of when I heard them the first time was bad for me physically).
I was thinking this morning that I can't go back in time... but I could write a story where I go back in time and make the changes in my life that way. A restructuring story that I could change what I wanted and possibly have others interested. In a way, if you can't change your existing life, you can use the past to create a virtual future!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
2 May 18
@aureliah And in creating that virtual future, we can gain a sense of accomplishment from it.
Once I created an alternate history of Earth starting from the crusades, and it ended up being a vastly different world to now. I tend to use that world and the politics I developed to influence this one. There was an entire society that was built on bartering, and it became a money-less empire (except for trading internationally). It became a system of merit, and there was no such thing as debt.... however, if you hit 0 merit, you had to serve prison time until you worked your way back up.
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@aureliah (24316)
• Kenya
1 May 18
@OneOfMany That is very true. I love the way that you think. We cannot turn back the hands of time but we can surely create a virtual future
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
27 Apr 18
i had migraines from 13 to 20..it sucked.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 May 18
Did you get past them though? My migraines lasted from 17 through 31, before I started figuring them out better. Now my headaches are really mild, almost to the point of what would have made me cry in the past (because it's far better than my best day during college).
I learned that dehydration played a big part. And vitamin B (super complex) or just B-12. For some reason, they help out a lot. My doctor really didn't explain why they do, just that I should take them.
@marguicha (223148)
• Chile
26 Apr 18
I always say I´m a survivor. And I manage to have as much fun as I can.
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@marguicha (223148)
• Chile
27 Apr 18
@OneOfMany I don´t usually answer much to nosy people.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
27 Apr 18
@marguicha Well, I tend to want to be heard when I have something to say. It's easy to bait me.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
27 Apr 18
I said I was a survivor, and people asked me how... and then I survived my wreck and they stopped asking...
Not that I wanted to have that.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
2 May 18
It's been a strange life. That's why I'm working on my autobiography so people can not believe it when they read it! lol
It's going to be a supernatural story... otherwise, people would lose interest.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
8 May 18
@Debscrochet Thank you. Hopefully I can get my body under control enough to concentrate on it.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
2 May 18
@id_peace They really didn't like when I was experimenting with fire and spray cans.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
2 May 18
I was blowing up stuff and getting in trouble with the police... oh well.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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27 Apr 18
I don't have many fond memories of teenagehood, but for different reasons. You seem to have had more than your fair share of suffering. ;)
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