Thoughts

[woodface]

I've been watching those people standing on the streets the last few days, not just during the day but actually sleeping out there in the cold. Part of me is proud for those people fighting for democracy. Another part is amazed (not in a good way) that this is happening. This feels very much like the Cold War, only for now everything has gone very peacefully (which touches me even more). I really hope they'll be able to resolve this. I was gonna write more but I got distracted and I think it's getting too late to consider politics.

I watched Ed tonight and this episode made me think. It was about an ex from Carol in high school coming to Stuckeyville for an evening. Carol gets all worked up because the guy is married, has children, a house etc and she feels like she has not accomplished anything as she is a teacher and still alone, never moved out of town. When they do meet up, the guy is being all nostalgic and looking back at high school as if it was the best time of his life. At that point Carol realises she doesn't envy him because she's happier now than she was back then.

This made me think. People always kept telling me to enjoy my time at school, that high school and university are the best times of your lives and you need to grab it and live it fully. I never felt like that. I hated being a teenager. I never felt school and uni were the best time of my life. I never got it why people held so much importance to it. And maybe, it just isn't. I was happier at uni than I was at school. I'm about to enter the next stage of my life and it should be better than uni. I want it to be better. *I* can make it better.

Besides all that, the war on neopets is driving me crazy. *thwaps healings springs*

Comments

[calyx.livejournal.com]

There is a neopet war?

[woodface]

Yes, there is.

Read about it here: http://www.neopets.com/winter/plot_hic.phtml, pick a side and then go to the battledome (and get your pets sick over and over and over again and curse the healing springs over and over and over and over again).

[calyx.livejournal.com]

Weird. :D

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

I HATED being a teenager. I liked the academics of high school. I became a bit more social in college, and enjoyed myself, and loved the academics. The 20s are rough. But I've been really liking my 30s. Folks who say "You should enjoy yourself; these are the best years of your life," to teenagers should be shot. It's a vicious thing to say, worthy of slitting one's wrists in response; I mean, if THAT were the best it got? Not worth sticking around for the worse...

[erica-w.livejournal.com]

I agree, people who say that to anybody at any age should be shot. Just because I actually had a great...well, okay, good time as a teenager (and you didn't :o( ) doesn't mean anybody else will have the same experience, good or bad.

I also agree that the 20s suck arse. I'm 25 and so far...well, I wish I was back in high school. heh Actually, I wish I could go back to kindergarten and start all over. Relive the good times, try to make the bad times better.

[woodface]

Heh, no way. You won't get me back to high school if you pay me. Well okay, if the prize is high enough ;oP

[erica-w.livejournal.com]

Heh, I can only imagine what *that* would have to be... ;o)

[woodface]

I ws disappointed in uni. I expected another attitude than in high school but I just found the same back stabbing and gossiping bitching going on there. I met some great people but most stunk.

[scarlet1983.livejournal.com]

Me too. Never thought people who are smart enough to go to university could be stupid enough to behave like that.

[woodface]

Exactly, I somehow imagined they would be past that sort of attitude. Pretty naive of me.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

My neopet is a pacifist.

[woodface]

OMG! Hippie pet!

[starbuck92.livejournal.com]

High school was one of the best times of my life. I felt so secure and confident with myself, my family, my teachers, my friends. I knew my place.

University, on the other hand, has been a confusing mess. I can't wait to complete this level of my education and get on with the rest of my life. Most of the times, it feels like I'll be stuck at this stage forever.

[woodface]

Heh, trust me, it does end. Well, I kinda made it end.

[starbuck92.livejournal.com]

Well, I kinda made it end.

Care to end mine as well? :)