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| Articles: If these are the best years of my life, I'm killing myself |
Posted by
tallidaho on Friday, October 12, 2001 - 07:48 PM PST
Rant about this, rant about that. I seem to rant a lot. Anyway- this hour's topic- High School. That torture that it seems every human being (or at least 90% of Americans) are required to experience. Before I get really into this rant though, I feel I must explain a couple of things.
First, I live in Idaho. In a farming town who's main attractions are the state mental hospital and potato museum. That in and of itself is enough, it seems, to make one go bonkers. But let's just add to this the fact that my high school is infested with people who refuse to belive that there are ideas in this world that wern't thought up by famous people. The debate program, the one place where I always am able to at least have some kind of decent, educated conversation is now full of Freshman that are annyoing beyond belief. I'll admit, some freshman are truely nice people who are responsible and even can think for themselves, but these people are few and far between.
Yet another thing to add to these problems is that this entire area is full of LDS people- Mormons. No offence to the religion, but it gets REALLY F'in old when I can't even go to school wearing what I'm comfortable in, or walk around with my best friend, or give people hugs in the halls, without having teachers, administrators and students give me shit. I'll admit, my best friend is, to say the least, a bit more extreme than me. Still though, why should it be a problem if we hug when we see each other between classes? There are couples of LDS kids making out in the halls, and nobody says anything. But God, Lord and Lady, or whomever forbid that a Catholic girl (me) and a Wiccan (her) be open about their religion, their friendship, and wear something besides name-brand clothes?
Alright, I feel I have to be fair to the people that aren't like that. There are some people at BHS that don't mind being considered one of my friends, and they are very good friends. Still a very small percentage in a school of 1,500 though.
That brings up another thing- why the hell can't our city realize that a school built 50 years ago and added onto over the years (in small sections) built to hold 1,000 students at the most, cannot handle as many students as there are. We don't even have an AUDITORIUM! We have ONE gym. The school sucks, most of the people suck, and I will be so glad when I get out. If these are the best 4 years of my life, I'm killing myself after graduation day.
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Re: If these are the best years of my life, I'm killing myself
by Rainlily on Oct 13, 2001 - 05:39 AM
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With the exception of my first two years
in junior high school, my junior/senior
high school years were the worst of my life,
when i started junior highschool i was a big
metal fan, who wore lots of black, and read lots
of horror novels, everybody thought i was a
satanic witch, it was 1991 and the word goth
had not entered our vocabularies, these days
I see young teens running around all the time
dressed all black but back then...there was only
me, i grew tired of my unpopularity, the teasing,
the cruelty, so i conformed for the rest of my highschool years and it was the biggest mistake
of my life, and it never worked, I never was popular, i never did fit in. If I had only
stayed true to myself perhaps i would have found
friends in the end who were of like mind instead
of running with the idiot preps that i did,
whom i have few fond memories of and haven't
spoken to in yrs.
oh well i suppose it could have been worse
I could have gone to a highschool filled with
religious people.....
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by Ironboots on Oct 14, 2001 - 12:08 PM
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I VERY much disagree that these are the best years of one's life. If THIS is the peak of my happiness in life, then I'm bound to commit suicide by 28.
Really, I think college and that small period of singledom after college is the best. No rules (except for that pesky 'don't kill' law... ;) to follow, you do whatever you want, and you pay the consequences of your actions. None of "because I said so" that anal authority figures give you.
I don't know what people were smoking when they thought that phrase up.
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Re: If these are the best years of my life, I'm killing myself
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Oct 14, 2001 - 07:23 PM
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These are the best years of your life I believe came from decades ago when highschool was the fullfillment of youth, not many went to college, and it was a thing not to screw around with. Highschool WAS freedom, WAS the time of your life, because right on graduation day you either married, had babies, and raised a suburban family, or you went to college to be locked in a tutorial for the next 4-16 years of your life.
Now? SOOOO untrue. I thought the same way you did. If this is the time of my life, then let me pray for a driveby.
It's not. Once you are out, you are THEN free, as marriage isn't so necessary or glorified as it was back then, there is MUCH more to entertain you, and your 20's are considered "youthfull". To a lot of people your 20's are the time of your life. There are parties to be had, experiences to experience, people to fuck, coctail coasters to be taken home with a hot chick's/guy's phone number on it, stories to be made and told.
Highschool is nothing. To those who feel that highschool IS the time of their lives, I'm very very sorry for you.
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by Arthegarn on Oct 16, 2001 - 11:11 AM
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I admit, as a foreigner, that I can't understand that way of thinking. I mean, in public high schools in Spain you dress as you wish, you act as you wish, you hug whom you wish and kiss whom you wish. And as long as you are not exceding yourself (meaning hands were they can bee seen, you horny), nobody at all gives you any shit. It's alien to me to do so. Though it's also alien to me wearing tuccedos to the prom party. Well, actually the party itself is quite strange...
Also, around here, wearing brand clothes to high school is almost bad taste. Nobody says anything, but keep on for a week with Nike, Levi's and Lacoste and either you have a wonderful personality, or will be immediately thought a jerk.
BTW, my high school had no auditium, a very small gym, a pathetic bibliotheque, and we were about 3,000 in classes of up to 40 people (mine 36)... I hadm't such a bad time there, but I agree, college days are the best.
Gyess that's how I turned this way XD
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