I miss being young. Or young-er. I miss Primary school and secondary school. I miss not having to worry about life or work or money. I miss my only worry being what games we would be playing at Brownies that evening or who’s house me and my friends would be going round that weekend. I’ve been incredibly lucky and had a fantastic childhood and fantastic teenage years and whilst I’m forever grateful, I do get sad sometimes over how fast they went and I end up extremely nostalgic. And often in tears. Here are 15 things I deeply miss about being younger!
- Turkey Dinosaurs (although I don’t miss these that much because I still have them now and again but they were just that little bit better when you’re 8)
- MSN: Running home from school to talk to my friends who I had just spent the last 6 hours with at school
- Speaking of school, I miss that too. Primary and secondary – I loved every minute of it. I was incredibly lucky to go to such good schools, have a solid group of friends, got good grades and had a lot of amazing opportunities.
- Like school trips. Oh gosh I miss school trips! Especially residential trips and spending a week in a new place with your friends, exploring and learning. I was lucky enough to go to Devon, Cornwall, Paris twice and skiing in the Alps with my schools.
- Hanging out in town every weekend with my group of misfit friends doing absolutely nothing but having the best time anyway
- Barbies. I played with Barbies until a shameful age because I loved building them houses and got a little obsessed.
- Birthday parties: Swimming parties, McDonald’s parties, Sports parties. We knew how to have a good time at the age of 7.
- Video tapes instead of DVD’s and Netflix. And renting them from blockbuster. RIP.
- Telling my mum I was ‘going raaand Scott’s wiv everyone’ but really we were getting drunk in a field (one time, we swear we saw a dead body in a bag. Too much WKD for us)
- Spending all day traipsing around London, with no plans but having the most incredible day. Starbucks and Nandos in Westfield’s pretending we’re Kate Moss or getting ridiculous make-up done in Camden pretending we’re Taylor Momsen.
- PlayStation 1. Need I say more?
- GCSE’s. I realise I’m sounding more and more like Hermione Granger by the minute but I genuinely do miss the feeling of exam season. I loved my subjects and loved revising. I worked hard and the importance of our GCSE exams is a feeling I miss.
- Lack of technology: Spending hours on Paint? YES. Waiting 3 hours for your computer to start? YES. Snake being the best game in the world? TRIPLE YES.
- Furbies, Bang on the Door, Bubblegum Club, Hey! Arnold, Recess, The Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, Goosebumps, Tamagotchi – all the nostalgia! *cries*
- Having all the hopes, dreams and ambitions for the future.