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great story Juve fanatic and good you came out stronger 
..... Sorry for being all doctor Phill here, but i just had to take this off my chest, dont wont to be considered as a smart-ass
14-eminem, 50 cent, limp bizkit
16-scooter, benassi
18-snoop, ice, house
20-minimal tech
23- now i finished watching beatles anthology, listening to nas and a tribe called quest a lot, liking some tracks from madonna, discovered metallica, trying out old music rather than new one...and btw the new hip hop music sucks
18-struggling to forget my first love, trying to think what to do after finishing highschool, got it as a fireman
20-getting a car, chicks and more responsability
23-waiting for a chance to do something else for better money, trying to buy a flat, trying to find the perfect girl for me
me at 17, 20 and 23
16-scooter, benassi
18-snoop, ice, house
20-minimal tech
23- now i finished watching beatles anthology, listening to nas and a tribe called quest a lot, liking some tracks from madonna, discovered metallica, trying out old music rather than new one...and btw the new hip hop music sucks
18-struggling to forget my first love, trying to think what to do after finishing highschool, got it as a fireman
20-getting a car, chicks and more responsability
23-waiting for a chance to do something else for better money, trying to buy a flat, trying to find the perfect girl for me
me at 17, 20 and 23
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Here goes my story:
This story will span from the age of 15 to when I turned 20 a few months ago.
When I look back at myself, the person I was, when I was 15 and when I try to connect the dots to who I am today - there isn't much of a common ground between the two persons. When I was 15 I was pretty much a kid without any prospect whatsoever. When we moved out of the refugee camp I was still a little kid, and the only place we could afford to go was to one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Denmark. This is the place I gained friends and started my secondary socialization, which turned out to be quite negative. In a pretty crime plagued neighborhood I started hanging out with the worst of the kids, joined one of the gangs and pretty much started a path down the crime road. The first time I did coke I was 14, and pretty much carried a knife with me from that age too. When I was 15, I had a wake up call. I was home sick with the flu, when I got a call from one of my friends telling me that a third friend had been stabbed to death in Copenhagen because he messed with the wrong people.
I decided to take a pretty sincere conversation with my parents, pretty much breaking down and crying in front of them because I could sort of see this is where I was heading. I still can't thank my parents enough for their words and how they gave me motivation to change. Over the next two years I pretty much stopped hanging out with the good-riddance friends from the neighborhood, started taking school a bit more seriously, got a girlfriend, lost the horrible accent and started maturing more as a person. By the time I was 17, I was pretty much a different person. I resembled Jasper somewhat, listening to Metal (probably because noone else in a radium of 50km from me listened to the same music), got a bit alternative friends and became more interested in life as a whole. I started high school, and met some people who changed my life forever. I pretty much realized the meaning of true friends and I haven't looked back ever since. I'm still a bit prone to conflict when I'm out, but I guess that's just the way I was brought up. Never punch first, but don't really take shit from anyone ( I apologise for the cliche) .
When I look at myself today I realize that I've changed a whole lot from 18-20. When I was 18 I was the most social guy in the world, whereas now I really have to like people ALOT to start a relationship or to give them a call - presumably because I have a great basis of friends and I'm not really in need of anything more at the moment.
My music taste are like this:
13-15 : Gangster hiphop
16-18: Heavy metal
20: I still like metal, but more the progressive genre, classic rock is a huge turnon as is blues. Jazz is the one genre I haven't really come to terms with just yet.
THere's my story, feel free to comment TL;DR
This story will span from the age of 15 to when I turned 20 a few months ago.
When I look back at myself, the person I was, when I was 15 and when I try to connect the dots to who I am today - there isn't much of a common ground between the two persons. When I was 15 I was pretty much a kid without any prospect whatsoever. When we moved out of the refugee camp I was still a little kid, and the only place we could afford to go was to one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Denmark. This is the place I gained friends and started my secondary socialization, which turned out to be quite negative. In a pretty crime plagued neighborhood I started hanging out with the worst of the kids, joined one of the gangs and pretty much started a path down the crime road. The first time I did coke I was 14, and pretty much carried a knife with me from that age too. When I was 15, I had a wake up call. I was home sick with the flu, when I got a call from one of my friends telling me that a third friend had been stabbed to death in Copenhagen because he messed with the wrong people.
I decided to take a pretty sincere conversation with my parents, pretty much breaking down and crying in front of them because I could sort of see this is where I was heading. I still can't thank my parents enough for their words and how they gave me motivation to change. Over the next two years I pretty much stopped hanging out with the good-riddance friends from the neighborhood, started taking school a bit more seriously, got a girlfriend, lost the horrible accent and started maturing more as a person. By the time I was 17, I was pretty much a different person. I resembled Jasper somewhat, listening to Metal (probably because noone else in a radium of 50km from me listened to the same music), got a bit alternative friends and became more interested in life as a whole. I started high school, and met some people who changed my life forever. I pretty much realized the meaning of true friends and I haven't looked back ever since. I'm still a bit prone to conflict when I'm out, but I guess that's just the way I was brought up. Never punch first, but don't really take shit from anyone ( I apologise for the cliche) .
When I look at myself today I realize that I've changed a whole lot from 18-20. When I was 18 I was the most social guy in the world, whereas now I really have to like people ALOT to start a relationship or to give them a call - presumably because I have a great basis of friends and I'm not really in need of anything more at the moment.
My music taste are like this:
13-15 : Gangster hiphop
16-18: Heavy metal
20: I still like metal, but more the progressive genre, classic rock is a huge turnon as is blues. Jazz is the one genre I haven't really come to terms with just yet.
THere's my story, feel free to comment TL;DR
Here goes my story:
This story will span from the age of 15 to when I turned 20 a few months ago.
When I look back at myself, the person I was, when I was 15 and when I try to connect the dots to who I am today - there isn't much of a common ground between the two persons. When I was 15 I was pretty much a kid without any prospect whatsoever. When we moved out of the refugee camp I was still a little kid, and the only place we could afford to go was to one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Denmark. This is the place I gained friends and started my secondary socialization, which turned out to be quite negative. In a pretty crime plagued neighborhood I started hanging out with the worst of the kids, joined one of the gangs and pretty much started a path down the crime road. The first time I did coke I was 14, and pretty much carried a knife with me from that age too. When I was 15, I had a wake up call. I was home sick with the flu, when I got a call from one of my friends telling me that a third friend had been stabbed to death in Copenhagen because he messed with the wrong people.
I decided to take a pretty sincere conversation with my parents, pretty much breaking down and crying in front of them because I could sort of see this is where I was heading. I still can't thank my parents enough for their words and how they gave me motivation to change. Over the next two years I pretty much stopped hanging out with the good-riddance friends from the neighborhood, started taking school a bit more seriously, got a girlfriend, lost the horrible accent and started maturing more as a person. By the time I was 17, I was pretty much a different person. I resembled Jasper somewhat, listening to Metal (probably because noone else in a radium of 50km from me listened to the same music), got a bit alternative friends and became more interested in life as a whole. I started high school, and met some people who changed my life forever. I pretty much realized the meaning of true friends and I haven't looked back ever since. I'm still a bit prone to conflict when I'm out, but I guess that's just the way I was brought up. Never punch first, but don't really take shit from anyone ( I apologise for the cliche) .
When I look at myself today I realize that I've changed a whole lot from 18-20. When I was 18 I was the most social guy in the world, whereas now I really have to like people ALOT to start a relationship or to give them a call - presumably because I have a great basis of friends and I'm not really in need of anything more at the moment.
My music taste are like this:
13-15 : Gangster hiphop
16-18: Heavy metal
20: I still like metal, but more the progressive genre, classic rock is a huge turnon as is blues. Jazz is the one genre I haven't really come to terms with just yet.
THere's my story, feel free to comment TL;DR
This story will span from the age of 15 to when I turned 20 a few months ago.
When I look back at myself, the person I was, when I was 15 and when I try to connect the dots to who I am today - there isn't much of a common ground between the two persons. When I was 15 I was pretty much a kid without any prospect whatsoever. When we moved out of the refugee camp I was still a little kid, and the only place we could afford to go was to one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Denmark. This is the place I gained friends and started my secondary socialization, which turned out to be quite negative. In a pretty crime plagued neighborhood I started hanging out with the worst of the kids, joined one of the gangs and pretty much started a path down the crime road. The first time I did coke I was 14, and pretty much carried a knife with me from that age too. When I was 15, I had a wake up call. I was home sick with the flu, when I got a call from one of my friends telling me that a third friend had been stabbed to death in Copenhagen because he messed with the wrong people.
I decided to take a pretty sincere conversation with my parents, pretty much breaking down and crying in front of them because I could sort of see this is where I was heading. I still can't thank my parents enough for their words and how they gave me motivation to change. Over the next two years I pretty much stopped hanging out with the good-riddance friends from the neighborhood, started taking school a bit more seriously, got a girlfriend, lost the horrible accent and started maturing more as a person. By the time I was 17, I was pretty much a different person. I resembled Jasper somewhat, listening to Metal (probably because noone else in a radium of 50km from me listened to the same music), got a bit alternative friends and became more interested in life as a whole. I started high school, and met some people who changed my life forever. I pretty much realized the meaning of true friends and I haven't looked back ever since. I'm still a bit prone to conflict when I'm out, but I guess that's just the way I was brought up. Never punch first, but don't really take shit from anyone ( I apologise for the cliche) .
When I look at myself today I realize that I've changed a whole lot from 18-20. When I was 18 I was the most social guy in the world, whereas now I really have to like people ALOT to start a relationship or to give them a call - presumably because I have a great basis of friends and I'm not really in need of anything more at the moment.
My music taste are like this:
13-15 : Gangster hiphop
16-18: Heavy metal
20: I still like metal, but more the progressive genre, classic rock is a huge turnon as is blues. Jazz is the one genre I haven't really come to terms with just yet.
THere's my story, feel free to comment TL;DR
Start with "Ibrahim Electric". They are great
I'll have a shot, though I don't have any pictures from my teenage years as we didn't have digital cameras then really, and they're all at my mum's.
13-15 - At 13 I started at the hoity toity private school that I would eventually graduate from. Unfortunately it was also the summer I got braces and learned I needed glasses in order to see, so I was pretty much a doomed new kid from the beginning. I had no clue how to dress myself as I had never had female friends before in my life, nor had I ever been at one school for a long stretch of time and so my social skills were a bit lacking. I was so shy that I could barely talk to anyone, and definitely could not converse with strangers. Middle school was a big haze of learning to get to know people, still being very naive, and becoming freakishly tall compared to everyone else in the grade. It all culminated with the death of my father and my graduation to high school.
Music: 60s stuff by preference, or whatever my mother had on the radio.
16-18: Starting upper school was kind of the boost I needed. I really began to figure myself out, began to like clothes and to wear massive heels and not give a shit about being a head taller than all of the boys. I was still very shy, but I really started to like myself and just do my own thing. I had my first real relationship in the 11th grade with a guy who was new to the school about 6'6.
Music: During this period I discovered what my real taste in music was. Lots of The Smiths, The Jam, Depeche Mode, not to mention the beginning of my everlasting love for 80s rubbish. My musical tastes have pretty much been the same ever since, though I honestly listen to just about everything but modern country and pop.
19-23: University made me a lot more confident and was where I met my real friends. I put on a bit of weight in university and went through a bit of a mental crisis, but came through relatively unscathed.
Then at 26 I lost all of my university weight, cut all of my hair off, and have never had so much fun as I do now. That's about it.
And I am really trying to put off writing this essay, hence the excess of information.
13-15 - At 13 I started at the hoity toity private school that I would eventually graduate from. Unfortunately it was also the summer I got braces and learned I needed glasses in order to see, so I was pretty much a doomed new kid from the beginning. I had no clue how to dress myself as I had never had female friends before in my life, nor had I ever been at one school for a long stretch of time and so my social skills were a bit lacking. I was so shy that I could barely talk to anyone, and definitely could not converse with strangers. Middle school was a big haze of learning to get to know people, still being very naive, and becoming freakishly tall compared to everyone else in the grade. It all culminated with the death of my father and my graduation to high school.
Music: 60s stuff by preference, or whatever my mother had on the radio.
16-18: Starting upper school was kind of the boost I needed. I really began to figure myself out, began to like clothes and to wear massive heels and not give a shit about being a head taller than all of the boys. I was still very shy, but I really started to like myself and just do my own thing. I had my first real relationship in the 11th grade with a guy who was new to the school about 6'6.
Music: During this period I discovered what my real taste in music was. Lots of The Smiths, The Jam, Depeche Mode, not to mention the beginning of my everlasting love for 80s rubbish. My musical tastes have pretty much been the same ever since, though I honestly listen to just about everything but modern country and pop.
19-23: University made me a lot more confident and was where I met my real friends. I put on a bit of weight in university and went through a bit of a mental crisis, but came through relatively unscathed.
Then at 26 I lost all of my university weight, cut all of my hair off, and have never had so much fun as I do now. That's about it.
And I am really trying to put off writing this essay, hence the excess of information.
OP
Here goes my story:
This story will span from the age of 15 to when I turned 20 a few months ago.
When I look back at myself, the person I was, when I was 15 and when I try to connect the dots to who I am today - there isn't much of a common ground between the two persons. When I was 15 I was pretty much a kid without any prospect whatsoever. When we moved out of the refugee camp I was still a little kid, and the only place we could afford to go was to one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Denmark. This is the place I gained friends and started my secondary socialization, which turned out to be quite negative. In a pretty crime plagued neighborhood I started hanging out with the worst of the kids, joined one of the gangs and pretty much started a path down the crime road. The first time I did coke I was 14, and pretty much carried a knife with me from that age too. When I was 15, I had a wake up call. I was home sick with the flu, when I got a call from one of my friends telling me that a third friend had been stabbed to death in Copenhagen because he messed with the wrong people.
I decided to take a pretty sincere conversation with my parents, pretty much breaking down and crying in front of them because I could sort of see this is where I was heading. I still can't thank my parents enough for their words and how they gave me motivation to change. Over the next two years I pretty much stopped hanging out with the good-riddance friends from the neighborhood, started taking school a bit more seriously, got a girlfriend, lost the horrible accent and started maturing more as a person. By the time I was 17, I was pretty much a different person. I resembled Jasper somewhat, listening to Metal (probably because noone else in a radium of 50km from me listened to the same music), got a bit alternative friends and became more interested in life as a whole. I started high school, and met some people who changed my life forever. I pretty much realized the meaning of true friends and I haven't looked back ever since. I'm still a bit prone to conflict when I'm out, but I guess that's just the way I was brought up. Never punch first, but don't really take shit from anyone ( I apologise for the cliche) .
When I look at myself today I realize that I've changed a whole lot from 18-20. When I was 18 I was the most social guy in the world, whereas now I really have to like people ALOT to start a relationship or to give them a call - presumably because I have a great basis of friends and I'm not really in need of anything more at the moment.
My music taste are like this:
13-15 : Gangster hiphop
16-18: Heavy metal
20: I still like metal, but more the progressive genre, classic rock is a huge turnon as is blues. Jazz is the one genre I haven't really come to terms with just yet.
THere's my story, feel free to comment TL;DR
This story will span from the age of 15 to when I turned 20 a few months ago.
When I look back at myself, the person I was, when I was 15 and when I try to connect the dots to who I am today - there isn't much of a common ground between the two persons. When I was 15 I was pretty much a kid without any prospect whatsoever. When we moved out of the refugee camp I was still a little kid, and the only place we could afford to go was to one of the not-so-nice neighborhoods in Denmark. This is the place I gained friends and started my secondary socialization, which turned out to be quite negative. In a pretty crime plagued neighborhood I started hanging out with the worst of the kids, joined one of the gangs and pretty much started a path down the crime road. The first time I did coke I was 14, and pretty much carried a knife with me from that age too. When I was 15, I had a wake up call. I was home sick with the flu, when I got a call from one of my friends telling me that a third friend had been stabbed to death in Copenhagen because he messed with the wrong people.
I decided to take a pretty sincere conversation with my parents, pretty much breaking down and crying in front of them because I could sort of see this is where I was heading. I still can't thank my parents enough for their words and how they gave me motivation to change. Over the next two years I pretty much stopped hanging out with the good-riddance friends from the neighborhood, started taking school a bit more seriously, got a girlfriend, lost the horrible accent and started maturing more as a person. By the time I was 17, I was pretty much a different person. I resembled Jasper somewhat, listening to Metal (probably because noone else in a radium of 50km from me listened to the same music), got a bit alternative friends and became more interested in life as a whole. I started high school, and met some people who changed my life forever. I pretty much realized the meaning of true friends and I haven't looked back ever since. I'm still a bit prone to conflict when I'm out, but I guess that's just the way I was brought up. Never punch first, but don't really take shit from anyone ( I apologise for the cliche) .
When I look at myself today I realize that I've changed a whole lot from 18-20. When I was 18 I was the most social guy in the world, whereas now I really have to like people ALOT to start a relationship or to give them a call - presumably because I have a great basis of friends and I'm not really in need of anything more at the moment.
My music taste are like this:
13-15 : Gangster hiphop
16-18: Heavy metal
20: I still like metal, but more the progressive genre, classic rock is a huge turnon as is blues. Jazz is the one genre I haven't really come to terms with just yet.
THere's my story, feel free to comment TL;DR
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Both interesting reads, You guys have been through so much more than me. I've had my share of shit but nothing compared to what you have come through, it must take so much strength to get past it all .
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Can't say I feel my outlook on life or my general likes and dislikes have changed much.
Only thing that has changed is that somewhere along the line I decided to give up on trying to change the views of idiots. I just ignore them now.
I can continue the less hair theme, though it looks suspiciously like I wearing the same top in both pictures, so apparently I didn't even change my clothes through the years:
Only thing that has changed is that somewhere along the line I decided to give up on trying to change the views of idiots. I just ignore them now.
I can continue the less hair theme, though it looks suspiciously like I wearing the same top in both pictures, so apparently I didn't even change my clothes through the years:
