[wastedyouth]

I simply cannot focus on my university exams anymore. I have come to realise how I wasted my adolescence on trying to get into the best university in England. Now youth is gone, and there is nothing I can do to get it back.
I am not a troll, just simply desperate. Have you ever experienced that feeling of ache in your stomach that you have upon the first day in school, first day on a job? The feeling of uncertainty. I have had it all morning, upon realising I am no longer a careless teenager, and that I will never be one again.


I fear I will end up committing suicide like the rest of the premature self-dubbed "genii":

Sufiah Yusof
Admitted to Oxford at age 13.
Is now a £130/hour prostitute. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Ruth Lawrence
Graduated aged 13 from St Hugh's College, Oxford, with a first-class degree in 1985. Now lives with husband and two children - whom she is determined to allow to "develop in a natural way" - in Jerusalem and teaches maths full-time at the Hebrew University.

John Nunn
Went to Oriel College, Oxford, in 1970 aged 15. Got a first in maths at 18, a doctorate at 20 and became a chess Grandmaster three years later. Lives with his wife in Surrey and makes a living writing books about chess.

Adam Dent
Started reading chemistry at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1994 aged 14. Left the following year, having been accused and then acquitted of sexual assault on an older pupil. Did an Open University degree and got a job stacking shelves at Iceland. Later went back to Oxford (this time to St Catherine's) and graduated with a first in chemistry in 2002. Is now an IT consultant.

James Harries
Presented himself on television - most memorably on Terry Wogan's chat show in 1990 when he was 12 - as an entrepreneur and child prodigy with an encyclopaedic knowledge of antiques. Had a sex change operation in 2001. Now called Lauren, she is a counsellor and also teaches drama in Cardiff.

Terence Judd
Made his first appearance as a classical pianist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra aged 12. Won the British Liszt Piano Competition at 18. He committed suicide in 1979 at the age of 22 by throwing himself off Beachy Head.

What should I do now? Should I drop out and get a job at a sixth-form to start an ever-lasting pursuit after youth, should I go gay and try to find another guy to spend my time with, or should I kill myself and hope to be born again to be that teen I never was?

Cheers.

[cpj1987]

You should do none of those things. Instead, change things from now.

[Charmed-Quark]

Oach! Go and find the very Fountain of Youth and all you have to do is to so enticingly engorge yourself with its intoxicatingly refreshing water as if it were the very elixir of the gods and all the shiny transient beauty of youth will return so alluringly on every bellyful you drink. Legend has it, if it will help, that it locates some mountainous range surrounded by the mist of time in a dome-shaped lagoon inside a cave behind a waterfall in the Abyssinian Land.

[llys]

You should relax.

Have some hot chocolate.

[Jim-ie]

Youth is over-rated, life truely starts when you turn 21 and have independance.