Thread: does life really get better after high school?

I answered "yes," though of course it all depends. When someone says that school is the best time of your life, they don't necessarily mean "the most fun." They mean it's the time when you can make the most of your future.

By the way, school is much more fun when the students want to learn.

I think it can...But it's all up to the person and the choices you make after high school. Of course it could be bad...if you made bad decisions...but then you have no one to blame but yourself.

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

No.

Well, disregarding the *LOL CAN U SPOT THE TYPO?!*, the typo was "eventaully."

yeah, I guess everyone's who's said that life is what you make it or it all depends on your choices is right. It's just that I'm always so excited about getting out of high school and getting to go travel and do things that I really can't do now, but then people say "nah, don't look forward to that, it's more responsability, just enjoy being a kid"
problem is I can't really do anything as a kid
i can handle responsability, I just want more out of life than looking forward to the weekend or summer vacation because I dont have to be sitting in a classroom

The true wisdom is that 18-30 is the best time of your life. After that, you're usually tied to some naggy bitch or a lazy alcoholic by a bunch of little shits.

Originally Posted by lagunagirl

first adults tell us that it does get better after high school, then they turn around and tell us to enjoy school because it's the best time of our life.

People that say such things, that dwell in dualities such as better or worse, are people who fail to live in the moment.

Such are caught up in the ideas and thoughts of past or future, so caught up that they end up missing the greatest part of the present moment. We have all been such people at one time or another. Some, if not most, live their whole lives that way, lost in an ocean of thoughts of what could have been and what should be, or might be. Thinking as such, one misses what is here now.

Be here now

Live this moment

Savor it

Glean from it what it has to teach

It will not pass this way again as it is now

Posted by Omnius Deus
The true wisdom is that 18-30 is the best time of your life. After that, you're usually tied to some naggy bitch or a lazy alcoholic by a bunch of little shits.

Truer wisdom yet, is that the naggy bitch or a lazy alcoholic or a bunch of little shits are really divine masters in disguise. They are your teachers that you should bow down before, for they are driving you towards awakening and realization.
You have the choice of seeing them as either the naggy bitch or a lazy alcoholic or a bunch of little shits that you initially take them to be, or seeing them as your teachers pointing out the lessons residing within you. One way of seeing takes you towrds an awakening, the other takes you towards a comatose slumber. The choice in perception is the individuals to make.

Originally Posted by Omnius Deus

The true wisdom is that 18-30 is the best time of your life. After that, you're usually tied to some naggy bitch or a lazy alcoholic by a bunch of little shits.

are you refering to marriage here? because 1) I dont plan on marrying a lazy alcoholic and 2) that's one of the biggest sterotype generalizations i've seen on the forum! Next you're gonna say we all end up living in a trailer park!

Originally Posted by lagunagirl

are you refering to marriage here? because 1) I dont plan on marrying a lazy alcoholic and 2) that's one of the biggest sterotype generalizations i've seen on the forum! Next you're gonna say we all end up living in a trailer park!

You should be so lucky.

No but its called hyperbole. The fact is, kids end your life. Life typically just gets better and better and better as you learn what really matters and what can really make you happy, then some little ones pop out and your committed to them along with someone that you "love" but they haven't made you feel excited in years.

Not to mention people tend to get set in their ways and... boring. They stop exploring cause they think there's nothing left to explore.

So yeah, high school sucks because you're so insecure and you judge people and they all judge you right back and everybody is drowning inside while hormones just make it all go fucking crazy. Then you level off, you get a grip on reality, you realize its not about what people think about you but whether or not you're handling your shit that matters. It could keep getting better and better and better, if one was only willing to keep exploring and hunt out what's exciting, and work really hard to keep healthy relationships with their loved ones.

Originally Posted by Omnius

The fact is, kids end your life.

The fact is that that was an opinion.

Originally Posted by Omnius Deus

You should be so lucky.

No but its called hyperbole. The fact is, kids end your life. Life typically just gets better and better and better as you learn what really matters and what can really make you happy, then some little ones pop out and your committed to them along with someone that you "love" but they haven't made you feel excited in years.

Not to mention people tend to get set in their ways and... boring. They stop exploring cause they think there's nothing left to explore.

So yeah, high school sucks because you're so insecure and you judge people and they all judge you right back and everybody is drowning inside while hormones just make it all go fucking crazy. Then you level off, you get a grip on reality, you realize its not about what people think about you but whether or not you're handling your shit that matters. It could keep getting better and better and better, if one was only willing to keep exploring and hunt out what's exciting, and work really hard to keep healthy relationships with their loved ones.

I think marriage or having children at the right time and on purpose does not end your life. If you are too young or accidentally get a girl pregnant, that can end your life.

And it isn't that married people hate excitment. It is that as you get older, you start looking for stability over excitment. And I think having kids is more exciting than clubbing or whatever you define excitment as. Both because biologically, you are pushed into reproducing and psychologically for doing something worthwhile that actually means something. Then in terms of "learning what really matters", having a kid does that more of that than college. If marriage/child bearing sucks that bad why do people keep doing it?

Back to the original point of the thread, I HOPE life after high school is better. In junior high, all the adults said how awesome high school is. and I HATED every part of it. So now all the adults are saying college is the best time of your life. So I am in kind of a boy who cried wolf opinion right now. (I am 18 and going off to college in 3 months.)