• deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        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.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Babies cry because whatever happened was the worst thing they can ever remember happening

        • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          I feel this way even though I’m doing alright nowadays. I think past a point of environmental or social stress, it takes away the ability to express certain feelings.

          I don’t have strong emotions anymore but nothing is particularly painful either. That was not the case for me in high school, dealing with particularly bad depression.

          • WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            2 years ago

            I feel you there, I was told I was gonna die in my 20’s due to an aneurysm from an inoperable mass in my brain.

            Got an experimental surgery, which technically failed… yet, here I still am alive lol. My neurologists don’t really know what to say decades later, so short of having a huge luck stat, I might be unkillable? 😂

            And honestly, I would’ve rather go out in better shape, not achy af like I am now. 🥴

  • Eochaid@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Wait you guys only got 6 weeks off for summer?? Summer break was always from mid-June to September for me, about 10 weeks…

  • Knightfox@lemmy.oneEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      High school was easy, but so much busy work. Homework every night? Wtf. Not that it was hard, but, like, I’m not doing that shit

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          That’s exactly my point. High school was easy, but not doing homework caused me to get very meh grades.