Revisiting Your Adolescence Through Triond

In the 1981 I turned sixteen, and I know I wasn’t sweet! I hated the world and was terrified we were all going to get ‘fried’ in a Nuclear World War. I wanted to live in a field and pick daisies… honestly that’s what I really wanted… well that and to be a nurse, teacher, electrical engineer, need I go on?

I was useless at English in school – maths was more my forte – but I started to write poetry. Wherever I was I’d always manage to find a scrap of paper to record my thoughts, which as a teenager were rather moody as you’d expect. To all you teenagers out there – Its normal, just grit your teeth and it’ll soon be over.

I always wanted to have my poems published, but I not only knew they weren’t good enough (I’m only human), but I was also a little embarrassed by their personalness. (Is that a real word? I rather like it.) To the point you cry! OK then… Triond, I found Triond. It was my daughter’s fault I blame her. She does so well with her articles. A lot of gaming stuff interlaced with real life interests for not only teenagers, but for adults too. So that was it. I wrote a short article about how well she’d done and then I was stumped. I couldn’t write, I never could. Then it struck me – write a poem. It was seeing this very simple poem out there for all and sundry that made me realise I could put my feelings out there, so I tried again – rather more personal this time though. And there it is – if I can write about how I  feel now, then I could publish my ‘teen’ poems, and that is just what I’ve started to do.

So along with the amazing Triond helping me to publish my mid-life poems, I can now enjoy regression and relive the moody, anguished, painful years of my youth. Oh joy – keep smiling, its catching.