Best years of your life, my ass

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My entire childhood was a sadistic and hateful hell on Earth, teen years included. I'm getting anxiety right now just thinking about it.

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My teenage years were not that great nor, were they some 1970's disaster movie either somewhere in between okay & not okay. There are parts of me I wished had remain consistent while at other times, I'm thankful to have freed myself from what would otherwise caused me great anguish for centuries to come.

I agree with you. My life took a turn downhill when I became a teenager. Anyone older that i've asked agrees with me that teenage/young adult years are the worst years for several reasons but I often hear them argue that it's because your feelings are more passionate and you fall in love a lot and experience a lot of heartache - something that apparently doesn't happen so much the older you get even if you're single. There's just more drama in general, I think there's less of that the more you mature emotionally and realize that happiness comes from within. Plus you have your entire life ahead of you just starting and you have to figure everything out and it's common to feel all that pressure like what if I make the wrong choices? Personally I can't wait to be older and already have most things figured out. I don't think these years are very happy, they're more about building my life and getting it on the right track and most of the time it's painfully stressful. It's like cleaning your room... It's an annoying process but you'll be happy once you're done and can enjoy a clean room.

The happiest afternoon of my life was when I was 15yo. Spring had sprung, lots of sunlight, snow mostly gone, and at home there were only us females - Mom let us skip school! We were too happy to go to school and Mom knew it.

So - not the best years of my life, no. The best afternoon of my life, yes.

I recall secondary school as years of decreasing stress. The spring term was a stress point as it was all done on classwork rather than exams, and that bit was the weak part of my profile. There was always a period of being very cautious after parents' evening because I knew that report was never going to be a good one.

The fifth year was a good one for maths ; I did badly enough to drop down a set, and that mean for the important exam year I wasn;t clinging on at the back of the top set trying to keep up and istead I was getting tought at a pace I could not just cope with, i could thrive with it.

The last two years were low stress. Everyone had already proved themselves in the exams at the end of the previous year, AND we were now specialising in the subjets we were interested in and were good at. I did Physics which really spoke to me and Maths (because though difficult, it is the tool needed to deal with physics) and then music. I also became inoled with stage (good fun, doing sound rather than acting) again indulging my special interest in electronics (there were one or two bits of sound equipment I built for the school stage)

That kinda scares me, my teenage years were like torture for me. I personally believe that every human has a unique existence. With that being said, one person might say retirement years are the best, or another person could say 20s and 30s are the best. Enough of me and my opinion

Even though I suffered from terrible depression as a teen. Being a teen FAR outweighs being an adult. I could devote much more time to my special interests because I got home early from school, had all these holidays and no chores. Beats adulting by far to me.

my best years were up until I went to public school at age 6... blissfully unaware and all my needs were met