High School - Adam

When I was in high school people would always say "these are the best days of your life", or "youth is wasted on the young" and nonsense like that as a senior in college and being out of High School for nearly four years now I have a little bit of a perspective. In High School your first two years you can't even drive so Pam has to take you everywhere you want to go. Then you have to wake up around 7:30 every day and you have to look nice because if not classmates may crucify you. And you are stuck with the same people from the age 5 to 18 so if you do something that would be considered social suicide everyone will remember you as that kid. But its also nice because you get to see your friends everyday and get to hang out and have fun with them while not at work. Then once you are at the High School you have to go to eight classes per day. These aren't just lectures either oh no you have to participate, read, answer questions and of course you are given homework every night because you have a one in eight chance that one of your teachers will give you homework. You don't get paid to go to school but then again you have parents so...guess thats actually a plus you don't have to work and still gain some sort of income. Then you have to eat the school lunch which looking back on it now wasn't that bad of a deal two bucks for a well rounded meal? I wouldn't mind swinging by a high school for lunch break for the rest of my life with that kind of deal if it wasn't extremely creepy. But aside from all these cons high school does have its advantages. When you are in high school people don't expect anything out of you. You can do whatever you want and pull the "I'm just a high schooler card" and it works every time. Plus high school kids are in the ultimate power position of society. They can sit back and criticize all adults and we can't say shit back because they are just high schoolers and they have the opportunity to do whatever they want after high school. for instance a high schooler can look at my major or career and say

"psh thats what you are doing with your life...man I'm going to be a fucking heisman winning astronaut doctor who stars in movies while married to a super model after retiring from the NFL once I graduate"

and you can't come back with anything you can say "yeah we'll see about that" but it doesn't matter because the high school kid has already won. Also in high school you can wear the most trendy things and not get made fun of, while once you are out of high school people think you dress like a slob or are trying to dress younger than you are (I'm not that old yet but I don't know how much longer I can pull off trendy stuff). Or if you admit you are old and dress your age high schooler still win because they can be like "hey get a load of grandpa over here" and you just sit back and take it because what are you going to say? "why you little hoodlums get a job!" oh that's going to cut a high school kid real deep. The bottom line is this: Is high school the greatest years of your life? depends on what you value I guess. if you value drama and being societies supreme critic then I guess so. If you value accomplishment, independence, and reality then perhaps not.