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Mortified
by David Nadelberg , Neil Katcher , Krista Lanphear
by David Nadelberg , Neil Katcher , Krista Lanphear
Ah, being a teenager... The drama! The angst! The ab-so-freaking-lute tragedy that was your daily life! The (grossly mistaken) confidence that YOU and YOU ALONE were smarter than everyone--especially your parents--and knew absolutely everything there was to know about the world! ( care for a shot of overcompensation, anyone?) One day you were at the heights of happiness and the next saw you in the depths of despair ( Note: the later was an actual phrase used by my best friend and I when we were, oh, 13 or 14. Example: "Oh my god, Lisa, I am in the depths of despair!"). Of course the entire WORLD was forever against poor innocent little you.
Oh the humanity!
So what did you do? You spent countless hours locked in your room, listening to mix tapes and venting into the trusted and oh-so-secret pages of your diary your frustrations and feelings about your parents, your peers, your popularity, and your puberty (or lack thereof). You bemoaned the fact that your secret crush didn't know you existed (shocker). You recounted the details of the even the smallest of tiffs you had with your best friend down to the exact words that were used--including every single improper use of the word "like"--and swore up and down that you hated this person and wished they would die some terrible death ( never mind that you made up two days later) You obsessed about people whose faces you can't even recall. Maybe you even tried your hand at writing and penned some absolutely brilliant (um,ignorant?) fan fiction. And, naturally, you peppered most everything you wrote with profanity, much of which you didn't fully understand the meaning of, because you thought it made your point sound all the more valid and important (sophisticated, weren't we?)
You remember doing some or all of this, right?
(I do.)
For those of you who answered "Yes," check out Mortified, edited and compiled by David Nadelberg. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll throw up as you come face-to-face with your adolescent self in all her/his insecure glory.
For those of you who answered "No"....Liar.
Oh the humanity!
So what did you do? You spent countless hours locked in your room, listening to mix tapes and venting into the trusted and oh-so-secret pages of your diary your frustrations and feelings about your parents, your peers, your popularity, and your puberty (or lack thereof). You bemoaned the fact that your secret crush didn't know you existed (shocker). You recounted the details of the even the smallest of tiffs you had with your best friend down to the exact words that were used--including every single improper use of the word "like"--and swore up and down that you hated this person and wished they would die some terrible death ( never mind that you made up two days later) You obsessed about people whose faces you can't even recall. Maybe you even tried your hand at writing and penned some absolutely brilliant (um,ignorant?) fan fiction. And, naturally, you peppered most everything you wrote with profanity, much of which you didn't fully understand the meaning of, because you thought it made your point sound all the more valid and important (sophisticated, weren't we?)
You remember doing some or all of this, right?
(I do.)
For those of you who answered "Yes," check out Mortified, edited and compiled by David Nadelberg. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll throw up as you come face-to-face with your adolescent self in all her/his insecure glory.
For those of you who answered "No"....Liar.
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