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Things take a 180 once you leave school
As anyone who has ever been a teenager will know, being in high school can be tough. Maybe you are/were a jock, a popular kid, getting lots of romantic action. Or alternatively, maybe you were a nerd, an outsider, a wallflower who hated the experience.
On the latest episode of Boys Don’t Cry, Colin Murray says that kids don’t need to worry about not being lucky in love as a teenager, because, in his words: “Boy, does that switch around when you become an adult.”
During a discussion about teenage crushes, the radio and television presenter said that it all changes when you leave school.
“That switches around hugely as you become older,” he says. “Because ultimately, the person who was smoking around the back of the bike sheds, who was getting a bit and all that stuff, who wasn’t listening at school and didn’t think they had to learn [things change for them].
“I’d love to revisit all the people from my class when they were thirty, because I guarantee you the nerds in the class had way more women than the ones who were being fancied when they were fifteen.”
TV presenter AJ Odudu – also a guest on the episode – gave a female point of view on the topic, saying that she thinks peer pressure is a big part of it.
She said: “At a certain age, all you want is a confident guy, someone who is really popular, and it just so happens that the guys who are really popular amongst all of your peers are the cocky ones – the ones that smoke, the ones that stay out late, and are the selfish ones.
“People fancy who everyone else fancies – I feel that happens as well.
“It’s like ‘Ah, Dean’s well fit’ – I didn’t think Dean was fit. But there are ten girls in my class who are saying he’s really hot. So all of a sudden, you now think that he’s really hot. It’s weird.”
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