Why are school days meant to be the best days of your life?

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School sucks but when you don't have a job, you would rather have school than do nothing.

When I was 16, my choirmaster moved me from the children's choir to the adult choir. I was the youngest member, and two of the women asked how old I was. When I told them, they began telling me to enjoy myself, that I was in the best years of my life, etc., etc. I went home and began crying, thinking that if these were the best years of my life, I was going to throw myself off a cliff!

Fortunately, my parents have a good deal more sense. They told me my teens were actually the worst part of life. They assured me life would only get better and better as I got older -- and they were absolutely right! I feel sorry for those two women from the choir, honestly, if they weren't enjoying their 30s the way I am. My parents are now in their 60s, and they tell me life is still on the upswing for them! I can say my school years were miserable, but my 20s were a huge improvement, and my 30s have been even better!

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My mum told me, when I was 14, that high school years are supposed to be the best years of a person's life. I became more disillusioned, with each passing year, spending the last two and a half years, going through a hippiehood of sorts.

Most people here are saying otherwise about that saying and I don't plan on breaking that trend. I suspect that the reason people mention this is because it's the last time in your life where you're not worried about adult things like raising a family, paying the bills, working rough full time jobs, and more. The teenage stage tends to be the first stage where people generally tend to feel "alive" and have much more freedom to do whatever they want. It's also when sex becomes a part of someone's life and by that I mean at least becoming aware of it and since it's new, it feels a lot more wonderful than when you get older. It's even a chance to be a rebel and be like "screw you world!" where you do all kinds of things that people don't want you to do like look up porn sites, play violent video games, flat out have sex with someone, and a lot more. It's like "revenge" for when you were a young child and you feel like you can fight the power unlike before.

I think that's supposed to be the reasons anyway, not something that everyone will experience. If I had to repeat high school, I think I would finally snap and go crazy. Just because life gets harder as an adult doesn't mean it gets worse. For one, you're not treated like crap because you haven't lived for 18 or 21 one years yet. You're also not forced into something like how you tend to be forced into school.

I liked high school at the time. I had a couple friends and a lot of drugs and alcohol. I was attractive and I spent most of my time going from boy to boy. At the time I just thought that was normal, now knowing about AS I think of my teen years in a different light, totally,

When I was 17 my family moved out of state. I found it very hard to adjust to the new high school and then did not like going anymore. I dropped out and finished via mail.

The best days of my life are probably now (and the last 8 years) raising children. Obviously there have been dark days and hard times but if I had a chance to pick a time to re-experience it would be motherhood, not high school.

Frankly, for a lot of people, the best time of their life was whatever period they were getting laid the most. If you consider that roughly 50% of the population achieves that before high school is over, and a majority of the remainder achieve that before college is over . . . well, you get the idea.

For me that was co-ed dorm sophomore and junior years of college. One of the funnier moments of my life was when my roommate Jim said to me, "I didn't even know you talked to her." So, you can see where the notion comes from even if you don't necessarily agree with it.