Your legs looked normal and fine then. Arnold trained very hard, and only with roids his calves were impressive.
In normal life you don't need to worry about your legs, unless there are injuries.
The majority of women appreciate shapely athletic legs, not overdone like in your veins everywhere calf photo
This obsession with muscle gives people the impression you are unable to accept your body or your body's natural limits
I think it's smarter and healthier if you start to see muscles as a means to a nicer life, not viewing muscles as a goal
But that's just my opinion
I train to be fit, I'm going skiing next week. Just an example, but such thing are a lot easier if I am well trained
No one cares what my legs look like 
Hmm, a lot of thought went into that post. It is always an interesting question as to what motivates a person to do what they do. Of course, I didn't want to accept my body and how it developed naturally. I was so skinny and weak that I started exercising -- doing pull-ups, pushups, bodyweight squats, deadlifting buckets filled with gravel. By 12 years old I finally had access to a weight set and haven't stopped since. That would mean that I've been lifting weights consistently for 46 years.
There are a lot of things in my life, in everyone's life, that they don't want to accept. So do you just passively accept it or do you do something about it? If you want to be better don't you have to do better?
To say developing muscles as a way to a nice life, I am assuming you mean to increase the quality of your life, as oppose to muscles as a goal doesn't make much sense to me. What's the difference? I mean, why would you set a goal for muscles, or for anything for that matter, if it wasn't to serve some kind of purpose? Presumably, so you will feel better for it. That you feel it will increase the quality of your life. No one sets to achieve a goal to make their life worse off.
But again, you raise very interesting points. Why people do what they do. What is healthy and rational as opposed to obsessive and even crazy. I freely admitted that looking back it was a dark period in my life. Why I became so obsessed with a lower leg muscle. LOL! Calves. F-ing calves!
What we tell ourselves. What we think why we do what we do. It's not always so clear. I try to be introspective and attempt to step outside of myself but attempting to examine and determine my own motives objectively is by definition impossible.
"Throughout my career in emergency medicine I have been amazed at the human capacity for self-delusion; we are the only animal in nature that can lie to itself. We do it so well that the majority of people are totally unaware of what motivates their actions, most people do not act to achieve consciously named goals; rather, they act to placate subconscious psychological value conflicts." -- M. Doug McGuff, M.D., The Narrow Therapeutic Window
