Life isn't perfect but I'm working on it, stress is constant but good things arise as well. I can't work because I have to watch my younger cousin everyday but yes I'm in a relationship. Almost two years now and he's gonna be staying with me until he can get his own apartment. We're very in love. My mother is nice enough but she is strict about certain things more so than a lot of the parents im my area. I'm in two AP classes and a college course which is stressful and Im starting to apply to colleges as well as make tour appointments and taking my tests. I only have two friends which some say is enough but it doesn't feel like it. I have to see my former friend and rapist everyday and watch aquaintances I use to talk to talk to her. I have to see my immature ex and his gf often while I've been apart from my bf for months. The dieting I'm doing is slow and I have a few health problems. I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and it's gonna be harder for me to have a child in my future and I always dreamed of having one. I have constant headaches and weak wrists and I can't deal with heat at all. The doctors wave off my problems, including my nearly constant nausea. I'm hoping once my bf comes back to my town things will get better but I know there's a long road ahead of me, but I know in the end I'll be happy. Life is a struggle but we have to cherish the little things. I've overcome a lot the last four years of my life (13-17) and I'm sure it'll get better for you as well. I wish you luck.
i actually really loved my life at 17. i was super happy. i didn't work. i had a boyfriend, which i'm still with now. (i'm 20) yeah i was in love, and still am. my parents werent strict. they pretty much let me do whatever i wanted, because i don't get into trouble. after i graduated high school, my present was a plane ticket to florida to visit my friends family with her. and we got to go to universal and go shopping and do a lot of cool stuff. it was so amazing, and i was really lucky to have that opportunity. i hung out with my friends constantly, and went out and had a good time. we always went to school football games, school events, the mall, the park, and taco bell. we did a bunch of crazy stuff when i was 17-18. it was a blast. sorry your life isn't great right now ;(. you're only 17 though. you've got so much to look forward to. life is what you make it.
When I was 17 I partied a lot and was a free spirit. I didn't go to school much although my mom moved to another town for a job for 6 months and left me the house and I actually went to school and got better grades when she was gone lol. So I lived alone for 6 months and shopped and took care of the house and went to school. I didn't have a SO I prefered to hang with friends, but I did date around a bit. My parents obviously weren't strict as I was aloud to live alone and they let me drink and smoke and not have a curfew for the most part
Life at 17 was crazy. Graduated high school in the spring. Parents divorced in the summer. Started university in the fall, at a good school where I didn't know a single person. Mom was trying to be strict, but had to try and keep things together without my dad there as the 'source of discipline'. I had been socially awkward in high school, hadn't had a girlfriend, so that part of my life was a bit of a mess. Couldn't handle my alcohol very well at that point either.
It was the start of an absolutely crazy 10 year roller coaster ride that didn't slow down until my late 20s. Looking back now there were some incredibly fun years in there, memories that I wouldn't go back and change for a million dollars. But wow, was I ever dumb.
If you had told me at 17 that I would live through the experiences I did in those next 10 years, I never would have believed you. Ever. So... I don't know if that is good news for you or bad news for you, lol, but do not think your life at 17 is going to be indicative of the rest of your life. At all. It is just the start of the ride. You have no idea where the ride is going to take you yet. Just hold on and try to enjoy the moments as they fly past.
I am 17 and its pretty good. I work as a surfing instructor, part time. I play high level football (soccer),
I reckon I just might have found my significant other, I'll let time decide haha,
and yess my parents are verryyy strict. Pretty good thus far, but there's been ups and down.
What makes you say your 17 years have been soo bad? I do wanna know
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Hmm, yeah 17 sucked. My alcoholic dad showed up drunk for my graduation. Very odd that that's the first thing that comes to mind. My HS girlfriend. . . I shoulda married her. She understood and knew me and loved me like no one since. I still hadn't had sex. No car. My big purchase was a clock radio I bought so I could get to work on time to pick up litter at the zoo, haha.
The biggest problem with 17 was having so much energy and big dreams and yet with so little resources (family unable to offer much support either emotionally or financially).
I've been 17 for the past 3 months almost. I finally got my license and a car (which I got to drive for one day then it got a problem). I am still trying to figure out how to ask this girl out who I've been crushing on for 9 months and she seems to possibly be drifting away. Last year she used to always say how much she would've loved if I could take her to lunch during school. This year she just goes with her sister and her friends and I'm not invited.
I don't want the social part of high school to end but I'm a senior. I'm thinking if I don't get a girlfriend or something to stay behind for I might just join the military upon graduation and stay a loner for life.
Other than that its great.
Im 17 I dont work going to graduate soon single and not in love except with my puppy my parents are kinda strict but not to controlling but being 17 could be really fun if you have the right friends to hang out with and make the most of it its one step away from adulthood
Being 17 was pretty awesome, my parents finally divorced and my father finally stopped being a prick as such because he was not around, I met a bunch of cool people including someone who was basically my first somewhat-reciprocated love, my mother always trusted me so she wasn't really strict. I mean, she said "I know you're not so stupid that you would do irresponsible stupid things", and I didn't. :P Some people really need more guidance, what i needed was self-discovery in myself rather than a discovery in the world - because despite all that, looking back, I was kind of a total prick, and I needed to realize that and change some of my views, haha.
I was in high school having no support no money even though my father was rich he gave all his money to my other brothers and his second wife so i only have one dolar each day to eat in school i was ashamed in front of my friends i was taking the school bus because there is no car for me i had to study well because there was no ither choice my mother was strict as hell so now as 23 years old adult i just graduated im xray technologist i did this by myself i dont let anyone to say a word about my life and i have my own money not much it was almost 700 dolars a month but i was living like a king because it was my own money u have no idea how much i was sad as a teenager but now as an adult i apperciate money i apperciate my own offert even in unversity i was paying for my own exam i had a board exma and i passed and still the sky is the limit so doesn't matter where are u know what matter is what kind of person you will be as an adult
Just turned 18 this month.
I didn't have a job, no boyfriend either. I was in love though. He "lost feelings" and that sucked. I spent a week in a psychiatric hospital. For the most part being 17 was pretty shitty...
But, I still had a lot of fun at times.
I was a nerd, bored and not really happy. Guess what. I still am. :-/
One thing I've learned is that unhappiness is a CHOICE. You can break yourself out of it by doing good stuff.
Go do good stuff.
Was amazing. You're more physically mature in high school so more girls like you and you're almost legal so a lot of older women are willing to risk it. Just barely to young to have more responsibility unless you already work, and about to graduate going into summer. It's a great time
When I was 17, I stayed in an abusice relationship, my best friend killed himself, and I ould barely afford college. It blew. But I got through it. I left my relationship for a mcuh better one, I'm living the life my friend would want me to and I'm affording school full time. You'll get through it. The teenage years are hard as hell, but you fight through 'em. It's what we do.
I finished going to school. Woo Hoo!
Had my first full time job. Woo Hoo!
Was doing speed every day.
Smoking 4 or 5 joints on the way to work each morning.
Falling down drunk every weekend
Had my first LSD trip (word of advice. The first time you take acid, 10 hits is too much).
I was doing whatever, wherever, whenever I wanted.
Best time of my life I thought.
Looking back 30 years later. I have huge regrets. I was the start of what got me where I am.
When I was 17 I knew very little. I met my first girlfriend at college at 17 and I was working in the Steel works.
25 was my best memorable year due to recovering from a number of knock backs and break ups. My shyness had gone. These knock backs really do make you stronger. Life get's better and better.
Being 17 sucked for me I was still very shy, self conscious, insecure, depressed AF I had low self esteem, never had a GF never partied, barely had a life outside of school, I just always played guitar for hours and hours in my room after school and skated and surfed on the weekends. When I started college and started smoking weed and I got a car and learned how to drive theeeeeen my life was awesome hahaha
im 17 too. i dont have a job yet (i kinda stopped looking as things were getting a bit stressful and exhausting at home and within the family). im in love yeah haha, my parents aren't strict but they dont let me walk all over them (which i wouldn't do anyway). but its a difficult time at home. school-wise, its pretty easy haha i thought senior year was going to be much harder than it is. i just dont like my school or the people in it haha but the work itself isn't bad at all
17. Scared of going to college. Worried about what people in high school thought, smoking too much weed and wondering why everything sucked (it didn't and it was in my head).
It gets better. In 5years you won't give two shits about what you did at 17
it was just like now at my 20's
Studying in the college.
Everything is the same way, but myself, I'm way smarter than those days.
Except the college which is harder and harder.
Andd , now idgaf about my looks, which was a bit important at my seventeens
When i was 17 my life sucked big time... as my parents, teachers and everyone else disliked me. Even i disliked myself. Then i started to like myself and things started to change slowly
At 17 I was single, nerdy and was constantly bullied. I had a lot more hair though... le sigh.
When I was 17...
1. Pretty shitty honestly. Lots of problems in high school.
2. Didn't work.
3. I had my first girlfriend, which was amazing when it happened, but crashed and burned quickly.
4. I might have been getting close to it, but yeah. Crashed and burned.
5. Not really.
Generally it was pretty bad. Those were the worst years of my life.
When I was seventeen, I was in a fling with the one of the very first guys to ever notice me... as sad as that is lol. My whole life changed when I was 17. I became more confident, more at ease, less anxious. It was great.
Last year I thought I was forever alone. My parents thought the same and they were concerned that I would live with them all my life. I didn't have a job nor a crush. My life was plain boring at 17.
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