(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Today I turned 17 and it feels strange. I can't really explain it. I mean I still feel like a kid, in some ways, but for the first time on my birthday, I feel older. I even feel a bit more mature. My Mom offered to let me skip school today and I feel like yesterday I would have said yes, but I said no today. It just seems strange how it was like all it took was one 8 hour nap and boom, its like I'm a different person. Lol. Reading this over I realize I'm just rambling on. In the last few weeks I've been remembering things I thought I forgot. Those things being hanging out with my friends who used to live in my neighborhood, memories of my ex-gf and the nights we spent falling asleep together. Its just really weird how its all happening at once. I really find it hard to explain. I find myself wishing I could be younger again, to relive all those memories. I never really fully understood when my parents said "It goes so fast, slow down and enjoy it." Although I did enjoy it, I wish I could do it over again ya know? I have had a song stuck in my head as of late and it describes how I feel almost perfectly.

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Have you guys ever experienced something like this? A point in time where you just seem to have changed? Like becoming a different person? It'd be interesting to hear your thoughts and maybe they'll help me understand what I'm trying to say.

With every new experience you learn and become a different person.
Personality wise it be found we all act different based on the people we're around, that means we have a different personality for online friends to real life friends to family.

Patterns are something the human brain looks for, which is why birthday are so useful along with dates.
Humans are still getting used to, some big, complex changes which happened to us not long ago brain wise. And the brain is sill being updated as the world around us changes.
Memories are a good example, we look back think how happy, we're but not very good at comparing. You're just as happy now as then.

Still loads to learn about the Human brain and body.

I turned 15 last week, feels weird man. My hearings starting to go, I feel the wind now more that ever and I get cold all the time too. My mum offered to let me have chocolate spread on my toast this morning before school and yesterday I felt like I would have said yes, but today I just said no thanks, and had butter instead. I keep reminiscing about the days before I turned 15 and all the memories keep flooding back to me, I just have this song stuck in my head.

I'm going to tell you that you should have no regrets for the things that you have done, unless you have done things that hurt those friends/loved ones around you. I personally know the feeling that you have gone through, girls, friends the whole 9 yards. I wish I could turn back time and make things work with the (seemingly) girl of my dreams, I wish I could turn back time and hang out with my friends more, study harder etc. But the fact of the matter is that none of that matters anymore, the more you think about it the more drained you become and the more and more you end up thinking about it. It becomes a vicious cycle of emotions that can seriously harm you in the long run. I know that you are just thinking about it in light terms, not really obsessing over it, however I do know a lot of people who tend to obsess over things like this and can't move on. You can't live in the past because it is going to consume you.