I wish I had worked harder in Spanish class, and gone to Spain on the class trip. I can only imagine how different those years would have been if I would have admitted my to struggle and gotten the help I needed.Ħ. I wish I had admitted to others that I needed help.Īs an adult I have been diagnosed with clinical depression, but as a teenager I hid my depressive episodes from my loved ones. I let a small anxiety grow into a massive mental block, and I wonder what the ego-boost of conquering my fear would have done for teenage me.ĥ. I managed to graduate from college and get married without a driver's license.

In If He had Been with Me, Autumn manages to graduate high school without learning to drive. Sometimes as an adult I wish I had some of the when-I-was-a-crazy-teen stories that other people have. If I had really been following my heart, I would have admitted to myself that he wasn't the one and only guy for me, and I could have possibly had a wider range of romantic experience.

Now, my high school sweetheart was not a bad guy by any means, but looking back I see how I only dated him for my entire high school career because I liked the idea of only having one boyfriend ever. I wish I had broken up with my boyfriend. If we did something cool, we had to tell people about it later, and we probably didn't have photographic proof, because pictures were these paper things you had to pay money to have made.Ģ. I can only imagine how cool it must be to get into hilarious hijinks with your friends, and be able to post pics of your shenanigans in real time. This seems frivolous, I know, but when I was in high school only the rich kids had cell phones at all, and wi-fi was a rare and wondrous thing.

I wish smart phones had existed, and that I'd had one. Ten Things I Wish I Could Change about my High School Yearsġ.

Books by laura nowlin