The golden years
The golden years
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I know it's not exactly the point of the post but I want to go on a tangent and note that it's 100% valid for kids to complain about school even if you have it harder. You should take their feelings seriously because their feelings are just as real to them as you hating your job is to you. When a toddler spills their juice and starts crying, those feelings are just as intense as yours, and you should respond accordingly instead of thinking "don't they know about the wars in the middle east?"
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Yeah, it's all relative. It's just incredible how your perspective can change in your lifetime.
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I had an absolutely terrible time in my small underfunded high school due to chronic illness, family tragedy, coming from a poor home, and just generally not having that many friends. I got picked on, I struggled intensely with untreated ADHD and depression, and was just all together miserable.
But to spite all that, I completely understand what people mean when they say they miss that period of their life, and I'd never seek to make them think they're wrong for feeling that. There's a weird defensiveness about this topic where people seem to feel anyone else having any sort of positive association with that period of time somehow invalidates their own hardships.
High School is not a good or bad thing. It's just a thing. An experience that was different for everyone. It's okay to leave it at that.
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Babies cry because whatever happened was the worst thing they can ever remember happening
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I cry because babies are the worst thing I can ever remember happening.
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School now is 8 to 6 or 8 to 4, depending on if your parents work
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Yeah, but have you considered that you don't get paid to go to school?
Nostalgia is a very strong thought, but being a grown-up means that sadly, there is a lot of things in life you'll have to give up because of money and responsibilities.
But life is short, there is no reason to not live your dreams and enjoy life and be a kid again once in a while. Do something crazy, say something stupid, go see your friends every day not because you have to, but because you want to, have fun again.
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But consider: we could make it less shit to be an adult (on average)
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I think you guys are finally starting to get the point of the movie. :)
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I would not switch my current scenario for a scenario where I was back in school. Hard pass. Now is much better.
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Yeah, no. Worklife is much easier. No need to worry about tests and homework and no need to sit in what's basically an office the whole day.
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Nah I can do whatever I want now
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Yeah. The people who long for the freedom of school life sure fucked something up in their adult life.
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I mean I fucked something up as well, but it will get better ;)
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It wasn't. School sucked. Fuck school.
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The answer isn't nostalgia for school. The answer is to improve work with the "perceived" benefits of school. 30-hour work weeks, 6 weeks paid vacation, paid holidays including bank holidays, occasional half days after the end of a big project, chatting with coworkers that aren't stressed out of their mind and actually given the mental space to be chill with you.
That's the real dream.
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We just have to deal with this lizard infestation first.
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It was the dream as long as you saw through the bullshit that is homework and just ignored it.
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In highschool my average day was 6 hours of school, 1 hour commuting, 5 hours of homework, and then cutting into my sleep to have some brief time to play videogames and argue with people on the internet. It seriously fucked me up.
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Wait you guys only got 6 weeks off for summer?? Summer break was always from mid-June to September for me, about 10 weeks...
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If you're a social and relatively smart person (or just take the minimum requirements) high school is probably really fun and easy. If you aren't social high school is either a job or a prison.
If you liked high school more than adult life then you probably peaked in high school.
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