Would anyone(if possible) go back to being a teenager?

BlueBell Oh yes, me also. I fell in love then and have never forgotten him .

Interesting wish, BigLouis . How would that have given you a happier life?

No I was badly bullied during my early teens which affected many of my adult years.

I met my husband when I was 16 he was 18. Unfortunately he died when he was 47 ,20 years ago. Going back in time wouldn't change the outcome of our life.
I will be 66 next month but in my mind I feel 50. But I love my life as it is. My love and grief for my husband doesn't get any easier as the years go by . But we had a good life and marriage and cherish the life we had.

Going back in time wouldn't change anything as we would still be the same people and still do things the good ,bad and unadvisable.

Live your life to the full now and don't worry about if onlies or what ifs.

If U could go back with the wisdom I have gained most definitely yes.

No. Almost certainly gave my family a hard time. My education was appalling. I made some dreadful decisions and had some awful abusive things happen to me too.
Would I be the person I am today and would I have raised my children with my amazing current (standing joke )husband no not all. So despite everything I would change nothing.

I recognize I was very fortunate, happy childhood and happy teenage years. Although like many people it would be interesting to go back with the knowledge and wisdom I have now. I was not a confident teenager , thought I was overweight ( I wasn't!!!) Apart from that my teenage years were wonderful. I know how lucky I was, working in a job I loved , at home with Mum and Dad , how lucky was I !

Yes agree around 17.. I would do things so different.
Loved being 23 though.

It's complicated.
Some of the years were the best, and the worst.

I enjoyed my 30s though.

Only if it meant I could have altered things so that I could have met my DH earlier but I don’t think it was the right time so I would worry it would alter meeting him and having our DC in which case definitely not.

I (like some other posters) would have liked to be more confident. However as with other aspects of personality,that comes with age. I didn't have any serious boyfriends as a teenager.I suppose DH was my first SERIOUS! However,would I choose to go back...,no I don't think so. I enjoyed becoming a mum to my two daughters. Again, like others,I was more confident with my second.That's pretty normal I think.

Well, cannot believe how naive I was in my teens but I gradually realised that, over the decades, I STILL think the same damn way and make the same stupid mistakes. Now that really is naive!

Experience has taught me nothing.

Marydoll

Absolutely not!

Ditto! 😱

Agree absolutely not!!

Well, if I could go back with all the knowledge and wisdom I’ve acquired over the years, I would like to go back to about age 18/19 to change some of the things I did at that time which I would never do now. However, it’s all in the past, and, I suppose, how we were shapes how we are now.

I really would, I had a great time as a teenager, and could then do things differently when in my 20’s, including marrying the wrong guy.

I would continually relive the years from 17 to 21 when I was at art school. Four years of being totally cool -what's not to like?

My teenage years were the 1950s, a 'grey' time in our history when we were still recovering from the war that cast a shadow on our childhood. I was lucky to have parents who supported me, though were sometimes over-protected. I was encouraged to do well at school, and read everything on their bookshelves. A good education, great friendships, wonderful environment - 100 yards from the beach. This thread has made me reflect on how privileged I was.

I would go back, in particular to 1973. I'd just left school and was due to start a language course at college in the autumn. My then best friend and I went travelling for the summer and in August we went to the Windsor Free Festival. The music in the charts that year was amazing, the hippy vibe of the 60's was still lingering and the sun was shining all summer (in my memory at any rate).

We met some interesting people on our travels including artists and writers and a man who lived on a boat on the River Dart. We climbed aboard and sailed with him past the thickly wooded shores right up to Dartmouth. Naturally we didn't think about the danger!

It was a magical, carefree summer at a time that seemed more innocent, although I suppose in reality it wasn't.

Woops! Got carried away and forgot to answer the question asked in the title. No! I would not go back to being a teenager. My teens gave me a platform from which to launch myself into adulthood, though that has been far from plain sailing. My teenage - young adult - GC seem to have more challenges than I had, or my DSs had, and I am glad I'm still there for them.

BlueBelle

Oh if only…. I wouldn’t be the shy little thing who thought I was ugly (looking at photos now I really wasn’t) my whole life would be different if I d have had some confidence and self belief when I was 17 🙄

I could have written that 😢

Yes, but I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to move out of my comfort zone, not have my decisions so strongly influenced by others and work wise, realise before I went into my twenties what career path I really wanted to follow,

Interesting wish, BigLouis . How would that have given you a happier life

I would have missed out on all the physical horrors that women have to put up with like childbirth, periods and the menopause.

Ive been told that many of my attitudes are male and certainly I compartmentalise my emotions in the way (many) men do. Men do what they want to do without guilt and filter out what is not convenient to them. A good way to live.

Oh yes!!! Back home with mum and dad and my siblings. Yes,we argued and teased each other but we all knew we were loved by our parents even though we must have driven them crazy at times.
I would want to go with the knowledge I now have if that were possible. That way I wouldn't have made some awful mistakes and I'd have prevented my dear sister from making some of hers.

Yes - 18. Left home to live near uni, lots of new friends and no mother to argue with and clip my wings! Funny, once I’d left home we developed a much better relationship. I never went back to live.