My childhood awkwardness
When I was a kid I was being jealous of really weird stuff. I’m not sure if it was a way to draw even more attention-as I’m an only child and they blame us for being egocentric and selfish bastards-or if I was just somehow intrigued by meaningless things.
I’m sure you have no idea what I’m talking about, so I will become more specific...
When I was around 6 years old some children during the lesson had to leave the class because of a bleeding nose and I was really impressed! Blood coming out of their nose?? WOW. "Why my nose never bleeds?" I was very fascinated by this fact and I thought it was something really great happening to them. The teacher used to hold their head back and take them to the school’s doctor. They were coming back with cotton stuffed in their nose looking afraid, while at the same moment I was thrilled.
Kids also used to break their legs, their arms etc. Whenever a kid was coming at school with cast, I was wowed again. Even though they were whining and scratching like crazy, I wanted to wear that cast! No matter how much I played and run and everything all my bones always stayed in excellent condition. (Writing everything down makes me a bit worried about my childhood issues).
Braces. I wanted to wear braces so badly, but “unfortunately" I always had perfect teeth. My uncle was a dentist and every time I visited him I was trying to persuade him that I need to align my teeth. He was calming me, saying that I didn’t need to wear braces and his certainty was stubbing my heart. But I wanted braces and since they didn’t put me some on, I decided to make my own. I made them with a paperclip. LOL. I was lucky enough for not getting caught by my mum ‘cause she would freak out as I could easily hurt my gums or even swallow the damn thing. (Mum if you’re reading this, I’m sorry.)
I always wanted to wear glasses. I was insisting on not seeing clearly at the board and my poor parents had no other option but taking me to the ophthalmologist. However, I used to read even the tiny little letters on his board and my naivety, my innocence, my stupidity-I’m not sure- wouldn’t let me lie in order to wear my desirable glasses. Years gone by and myopia knocked my door and I can finally wear glasses! I don’t need them on all the time though, but I have to wear them to the cinema and when I drive. It is not that fun now but still, one of my "dreams" came true.
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Well you would be extremely jealous of me then. Broken hand, knee surgery, multiple stiches in every place of my head and I was always covered with scratches and skin wounds :D
Btw, if you are still jealous, I can give you a bloody nose anytime. I am such a good person :)
hahaha Omg you would be my best friend!
That's what my mum told me yesterday when I confessed my "wishes" to her. However, I'm perfectly fine now. I don't need a bleeding nose anymore thank you. :P
Καλά έχεις πολύ πλάκα ! Με έκανες και γέλασα. Ωραία είσαι με τα γυαλιά πάντως . Καλή συνέχεια !
:)) Χαίρομαι!! Να σαι καλά!! :))
you are a weird person Mrs @eliakon :p
I guess you're right Mr @unsheakable :P
Even though growing up my aspect changed completely on all of the above :P
However, ''weird'' people have an extremely unique beauty. Keep that in mind!
Oh I like that!! Thanks ;P
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I was the same! Especially about the glasses. When I finally did get a prescription for glasses, at the age of 27, I was really excited because I thought they made me look more intellectual and I thought I'd get taken more seriously at work. I didn't, though I did get a better job (probably unrelated to my glasses.
My prescription was borderline, and I only ever wear glasses for driving now. People who have to wear glasses or contact lenses envy me.
Oh I'm happy to see that others too have been thinking that way :)
Mine is borderline as well so I don't have to wear them during the day.. And now I feel lucky enough as they give me headaches when I have them on for hours..
Thank you for commenting @natubat :)
LOL this post was entertaining and hit close to home on several points, i dont think i'll ever break out of my awkwardness. Sometimes ill be doing something and my mind will just wonder back to something stupid i said or did when i was younger and i just cringe inside and it ruins my entire day lol
Gave you a follow keep on keeping it real on Steemit, im alwys sifting through the rubbish content hoping i find something good, most of the time its painful and sometimes i get rewarded with something like this
Oh thanks a lot for your kind comment!! :))
Hahahaha....I also had weird feelings too. But on the contrary I would never wish I had a cast on my legs. Excellent post and very clear writing . I just followed you to see more of your good writing , make sure you don't disappoint me. Bye for now
Oh thanks a lot for your kind words! :)
Bye bye! :)
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@eliakon, I like this story. I don't think I ever wanted any of the things that you mentioned (although I got most of them anyways). This is certainly a great example of the expression "the grass is always greener on the other side". Watching my kids grow up now, I see this happen a lot in their lives, where they wish for the thing that they don't have, without really knowing if it's any better. Thanks for the post, it was cute and well written!
Thank you for your kind words! :) Well this is how life always goes actually... :)
I've also never broken anything, never needed glasses, my nose bleed when i was young, but nowadays it doesn't. The teeth however is another deal, i had the most screwed up teeth i've ever seen, i had a tooth actually growing to the eye instead of the mouth, the tooth was going straight to the optic nerve and if it kept going i would become blind, thank god they found out in time and did a surgery to pull it the right way.
Omg really??? That sounds serious! :/ I have never heard of something similar before!
Thank god everything turned out to be fine!