Tell us all about the person you were when you were sixteen. If you haven’t yet hit sixteen, tell us about the person you want to be at sixteen.

Ah, 16. I think I was still quite innocent and naive. I was a doe in the headlights – ok no, not that innocent. But I guess I was an eager to please, loving and friendly guy who just wanted to get through the things that were in front of him and do well. I had no idea what was in store for me and I wasn’t prepared. I was also very, highly influenced by peer pressure.

Back in the 80s and 90s and uptil the 90s we had school till 10th grade and you did your 11th & 12th in a college as only some schools had 11th & 12th grade. I did the same and was initially happy that I would no longer have to wear a school uniform and could be all cool and stuff. But my studies would suffer as I chose the wrong majors – I should have gone with Economics or Commerce but I was stupid and chose Engineering Science, so I could join my immediately older cousins in engineering college. It was a dumb choice and I should have listened to reason. Anyway I joined and I made a few friends, none of who I was friends with a few years later and who I haven’t seen since I was 20.

I would fall in love, hard, well atleast that last a few years and was my first sexual experience (that would not until a couple of years later though) and little did I know it but I was bound for pain, heartbreak and my life would never be the same again. The end of innocence was nearby in just a couple of years. I miss the ole Rosh who was the teenaged dreamer. He was a great kid just got on the wrong path.

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