Being a teenager is hard on everyone. Even that 15-year-old stud who seemed like they were in the prime of their life had to deal with the cliques, the drama, the insecurities, the hormones coursing through their body. There is nothing anyone could offer me that would make me want to go back and relive my teenage years.

I was constantly anxious and self conscious and I worried about things no one even noticed. If I could go back in time, here is a list of things that I would tell teenager me not to worry about:

1. Being too tall.

When I started high school, I was a normal height of 5’5,” and by the time I started my junior year, I had grown to be 5’10". Not only was I taller than all but a handful of my female classmates, but I was taller than most of my male classmates. I was uncomfortable around shorter guys, and thought that all the boys would think I was too tall to go out with.

2. Pointy shoes.

I have big feet and I was terrified that pointy shoes would make them look even bigger; I was worried they would make me look like I had clown feet. I thought that boys wouldn’t want to date me because my feet looked too big.

3. High heels.

Even without heels, I was taller than almost all of my classmates. While all my friends were picking out high heels to wear to prom, I was thinking about how if I wore high heels I would be taller than almost every boy there. Nothing makes the discomfort of suffering through a night of high heels worse than being self conscious about possibly emasculating your date with your height.

4. Flats.

Since I was tall, the alternative to high heels was flats. I have wide feet and the sides of my flats would sometimes rub against the ground and after a while I would ruin them. Not only was I ruining my shoes, but I was also self conscious that you could see a lot of the top of my foot in flats. I thought that flats made my feet look fat, not wide or big -- fat.

5. Uggs.

Uggs boots are the go-to white girl winter shoe. Of course, I loved them; all teenagers still love them. But one day I really looked at my Uggs and realized how ugly they really are. I thought that high Uggs made my legs look like tree trunks and the short Uggs made me look like I had fat ankles.

6. Rain boots.

I felt the same way about rain boots as Uggs. I thought they were too bulky and made me look like I had fat ankles. (Clearly I had a lot of issues with my feet growing up.)

7. Side ponytails.

I rocked a side ponytail until I was probably 16-years-old. Starting at a pretty young age, I thought that that if I wore a straight, slicked back pony that people would mistake me as a boy from the front. My sister shared the same view, she wore her hair in pig tails for years so that people could tell she was a girl from every angle.

8. Boobs.

I spent a good chunk of my teenage years waiting for my boobs to really grow in before I finally accepted that I’m a girl with small boobs. I hated having small boobs. I used to think that when I wore a sports bra and a large shirt over it, that no one would be able to tell I was a girl because my boobs were so compressed.

9. Hair length.

Growing up, if someone were to give a description of my physical appearance, I always wanted “long hair” to be one of my qualities. At the time, I believed any hair cut above the boobs qualified as short hair; this lead me to growing my hair down to my belly button.

10. Popped collar.

I firmly believed that if I did not pop the collar on my Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister or any other polo shirt, that I would look stupid. I also believed that if you were wearing multiple polos, both collars needed to be popped. I’m still not even sure of the reasoning behind this.

11. Make up.

I never learned how to correctly apply make up, even now, I just learned how to correctly put on eyeliner at the age of 22. In my teens, it was much worse. My lack of knowledge about make up made me over compensate and wear a lot of liquid, black eyeliner. In high school, I thought I looked cute; in reality, I looked like a raccoon.

12. Not having the most up to date cellphone.

Before the age of almost everyone having an iPhone, there were other very popular, non-smartphones. I felt like all my friends that the Motorola Razr or the LG Chocolate while I was stuck with the weird knock off version. Even when everyone was getting into the Blackberry trend, I was stuck with the HTC Snap, the biggest Blackberry wannabe of the day. I was worried I was being judged for having a cellphone that wasn't as cool enough.

13. VPL.

I saved the best for last -- my mom introduced me and my sisters to the VPL. My sister was walking up the stairs into a restaurant and my mom points at her butt and says, “Oh, you have a VPL, visible panty line!” This moment has scarred me for life. Every day after this, I have worried that my underwear was visible through whatever bottoms I was wearing.

I spent years being self conscious about so many things, and now I realize the only person who cared about these things about me was me. Spending my time worrying about these things was exhausting. If I could go back in time, I would tell teenage me not to worry about all those stupid insecurities; just be yourself. You’re gonna be stuck with you for the rest of your life, so you might as well get used to being who you are.