They told us high school will be the best years of our lives. Now if I asked you what the first word that comes to your mind when I say “high school” is, I’m guessing the vast majority would declare that it does not fit in agreement with that original statement. The rest of you are lying or barely attending high school or maybe a few of you are just super optimistic. The point is, they lied to us.
I remember believing it too. I remember believing that high school was certainly going to be the best years of my life. Then I met grade 9 and the dream began to flicker. The funny thing is, that even after the past 3 years I still believed them when they said grade 12 would be the best year of your life. It’s not really. That’s not to say high school is all bad and brutal. That would be a lie as well. But it’s not the best years of your life either. It gets better.
High school to say the least is a bloody rollercoaster, and grade 12 is the part with a million ups and downs and definitely a few loops. Everything from the cliché broken hearts (which don’t seem so cliché once you’ve had your heart broken) to the loss of friendships to never ending parental dilemmas. It’s all there. Slapped in your face almost every other day. It’s those years where you make a lot more than a few mistakes and promise you’ll learn from them over and over again. I mean, we certainly find ways to make it fun, and there will definitely be a collection of good memories when we all leave, but majority of us have probably mistaken school for hell from time to time.
On the plus side, I think it’s safe to believe it will get better than this. Maybe worse too at times, I won’t lie, but certainly a lot better as well. These are nowhere the best years of our lives.
High school isn't a roller coaster, life is. Whether or not your being educated in a facility with kids your age or not, life is going to go up and down. You'll be flying high in april, and shot down in may no matter the year.
ReplyDeleteChildhood does not exempt one from heart break, and adulthood does not entitle one to perfection.
As a teenager just recently exposed to some of the realities of life, it's easy to get confused and assume we know everything. One might presume that since some things in high school suck, life going to get sooo much better as an adult. But who knows? Life can play out worse as an adult. We shouldn't be disappointed with high school or our present situation, we should appreciate it, because when we get older we may look back and realize these WERE the best years of our lives.
That's just in my opinion though...
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely, life is a rollar coaster. But since high school is a part of life it seems reasonable to say high school is a roller coaster as well. I don't disagree with anything you've said, but I think at this age if we focus solely on high school life, everything I've said remains mostly true to most people.
ReplyDeleteTruth. High school is seriously overrated. We’re too young to do a lot of the things we want and we have to spend 6 hours a day, 5 days a week in the classroom. I don’t think there is any point that will be “the best years of our lives“, for everyone. There’s always challenges but hopefully it gets a little more exciting after this.
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