I’m currently 18 and in 12th grade, preparing for the Baccalaureate exam (the one held in Romania when you graduate high school) and my university admission exam for law, both taking place next summer. I’m really into health, wellness, beauty, skincare, and fashion: things like working out, sports, nutrition, meditation, makeup, and shopping. I read a lot, watch movies and TV shows almost every night, and listen to music constantly. I love going out, clubbing and partying, traveling, driving around (I got my license recently), and playing games like The Sims, Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Crusader Kings III, Stellaris, Cities: Skylines, Baldur’s Gate 3, Minecraft, and Roblox. I’m also into casual dating and sex. That’s basically my life at the moment. What were you doing when you were my age?
Starting an online community, being disinterested in my studies following a lack of academic direction at Oxford/Cambridge, finding the dating pool and friend pool at my school insufficient to make many meaningful connections, playing a few 2004/5 video games, drinking at our sixth form bar, and ultimately running out the clock on a way of life I was tired of.
In the autumn nothing much happened and the next year I’d go to university in Scotland mostly to get my parents off my back. In hindsight I don’t think I could have done much else with the options and knowledge available to me.
It was pretty bleak, emotionally.