The forgotton passions of one?s youth

By Ken Y-N ( September 24, 2012 at 00:53) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Here?s a sweet survey from goo Ranking, looking at the flames of teenage passion that one has forgotten as an adult.

Demographics

From the 6th to the 9th of July 2012 1,016 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.0% of the sample were female, 9.9% in their teens, 12.7% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 27.0% in their forties, 11.0% in their fifties, and 10.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Looking at the answers, a common theme in many of them appears to be undeclared or unrequited love, which is not an unusual occurance in Japanese schools, as far as I am aware. I was totally unaware of anything when I was in school, so I cannot give a comparison with the Scottish situation! Note, I?ve translated everything in the present tense as I think the answers read better with a sense of immediacy.

Ranking result

Q: What flames of teenage passion have you forgotten since you?ve become an adult? (Sample size=1,016)

Rank	?	Score
1	The heart beating faster as our eyes meet	100
2	The heart beating faster as we pass each other in the corridor	92.7
3	The heart beating faster as we talk	88.3
4	Waiting for the phone to ring	73.8
5	The heart beating faster as we hold hands	73.6
6	The first time we hold hands	61.1
7	The heart beating faster while I wait at the date start point for them	58.5
8	Watching them performing at their after-school club activities	45.1
9	Feeling lonely when I return home from a date	44.3
10	Being far too nervous on the first date	43.8
11	Walking home from school together	40.9
12	Panicking when their family answers the phone	40.4
13	Being unable to sleep due to joy and nervousness the night before the date	31.3
14	Going to have a look at where the person I fancy lives	28.8
15	Even on holidays, enjoying being able to meet them at club activities	23.8
16	Sending a love letter	23.6
17	Going out on a group that includes the person I fancy	22.8
18=	Faking a cold attitude in front of other people	19.4
18=	Going round to visit the person I fancy?s class	19.4
20=	Keeping an overnight date secret from my parents	18.4
20=	Giving them a hand-made present for their birthday, etc	18.4
22	Anxiously awaiting a reply on my pager	17.4
23	Regret that I didn?t make an honest apology when rowing	16.1
24	Everything ending when I can?t even declare my love at the graduation ceremony	15.0
25	Studying together	14.5
26	Accidentally on purpose phoning them	13.7
27	Being in the same team, group at the school sports, culture, etc festival	13.2
28	Getting their second-top button at the graduation ceremony	12.4
29	Us drifting apart because neither of us are serious	11.1
30	Having a top-secret investigation of the type of person they like	10.6
31	Appearing too neat and tidy, too much of a tough guy in front of the person I fancy	10.6
32	Pretending to fancy someone else	9.8
33	Secretly, frantically studying up on their hobbies, interests	9.3
34	Declaring my love on St Valentine?s Day	9.1
35	Waiting to swap back our swapped diaries	8.5
36=	Skiving off school together	8.3
36=	Being unable to declare my love once my friends found out who I had my eye on	8.3
38	Going to attend a school event that the person I fancy is appearing in	5.7
39=	Declaring my love on graduation day	4.1
39=	Changing my hair, fashion to match the celebrity they like	4.1

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