Best days of your life (Might look like an afraid to turn 30 thread)

Super-Rush

I've been reading a lot of Leaving Cert threads over the last few days and it got me thinking about my school days. Its been 10 years since i set foot inside my old correctional facility and i have to admit they really were the best days of my life. I loved every single minute of it. I wish i could go back sometimes. My problems back then seem so small compared to problems i might have at the moment.

phasers

My school sucks, if those were the "best days of my life" my life is gonna suck.

Roll on college.

Mr Benevolent

super-rush wrote: »

I've been reading a lot of Leaving Cert threads over the last few days and it got me thinking about my school days. Its been 10 years since i set foot inside my old correctional facility and i have to admit they really were the best days of my life. I loved every single minute of it. I wish i could go back sometimes. My problems back then seem so small compared to problems i might have at the moment.

Freak. Probably enjoyed the thrashings too.

bronte

I wouldn't return to them days if you paid me!

TheZohanS

I hated secondary school, but loved college.

Super-Rush

I feckin loved it. We had some laugh. I can't remember one really bad moment.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I'm only 21, so hopefully the best days of my life are still ahead of me.

admiralofthefleet

10 years ago, when i was 18. best times i have ever had

Super-Rush

Don't get me wrong, my life at the moment is pretty good but it wouldn't take much for it to turn pear shaped. I didn't have those worries when i was 15 or 16.

Vinta81

I only did my LC in 2007, but damn looking back I had such a fun time - the silliness of it all. No repsonsibilities etc...but I'm pretty happy with the direction my life has taken since.

But, school wasn't as rotten as we all thought at the time.

Latchy

Leaving your school days behind is just part of life ie ,you leave school , you get a career / job , you leave home , you get a better job , responsibilitys , mortages bills, bills and more bills .Yeah it's horrific compared to the cosy school days for sure

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Good God, no. I have the ability to think for myself now and the actual right to express myself.

flying _squirl

what the hell are you talking about?! school sucked balls!:
no car
had to rely on parents for lifts
incredibly orkward situations with the opposite sex
SPOTS!!!!
there was always a major risk of getting the crap kicked out of you by a group of scumbag for your phone!
couldn't go see movies for over 18s
couldn't drink (well yea we did anyway but you'd get in **** if you got caught)
nobody respected your opinion!
do anything out of the ordinary and your 'gay'

collage was the best time ever!!!
lots and lots of drinking!
loads of like minded people!
drugs!!!
tutors you could talk to and who would respect you as an adult!
girls wanting to experiment!
mad collage holidays!
able to get up late/not NEEDING to always be in on time!
lots of sex!! for god sake think of the sex!
staying out all night, going back to the flat with loadsa mates, play halo and drinking games into the morning, then all falling into collage and have the tutors laugh at the state of you as apposed to giving out **** to you!

oh and no f**king stupid detention!

Vinta81

flying _squirl wrote: »

what the hell are you talking about?! school sucked balls!:
no car
had to rely on parents for lifts
incredibly orkward situations with the opposite sex
SPOTS!!!!
there was always a major risk of getting the crap kicked out of you by a group of scumbag for your phone!
couldn't go see movies for over 18s
couldn't drink (well yea we did anyway but you'd get in **** if you got caught)
nobody respected your opinion!
do anything out of the ordinary and your 'gay'

collage was the best time ever!!!
lots and lots of drinking!
loads of like minded people!
drugs!!!
tutors you could talk to and who would respect you as an adult!
girls wanting to experiment!
mad collage holidays!
able to get up late/not NEEDING to always be in on time!
lots of sex!! for god sake think of the sex!
staying out all night, going back to the flat with loadsa mates, play halo and drinking games into the morning, then all falling into collage and have the tutors laugh at the state of you as apposed to giving out **** to you!

oh and no f**king stupid detention!

You obviously skipped your English classes.

Everyone had different experiences. Would I go back to school? Probably not. But, I do like to reminisce sometimes, I enjoyed it for the majority of the time. It was just a more care free time, I feel I've had more *awkward experiences with guys since leaving school.

flying _squirl

Vinta81 wrote: »

You obviously skipped your English classes.

Everyone had different experiences. Would I go back to school? Probably not. But, I do like to reminisce sometimes, I enjoyed it for the majority of the time. It was just a more care free time, I feel I've had more *awkward experiences with guys since leaving school.

nah, art collage FTW!!!

yea, i suppose i can think of a few good times that i wouldnt mind doin again and i know what you mean about care free.

heh, poor guys :P :pac:

tman

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Good God, no. I have the ability to think for myself now and the actual right to express myself.

QFT

College was fun for me, apart from the bad choice of course and college that I made. The year or two after that was the best for me... Starting to earn a crust and gaining true independance, and of course actually having the cash to get mangled every weekend... Good times!:cool:

Vinta81

flying _squirl wrote: »

nah, art collage FTW!!!

yea, i suppose i can think of a few good times that i wouldnt mind doin again and i know what you mean about care free.

heh, poor guys :P :pac:

Yeah a few days or trips I'd love to do again! Looking back I just meant to say that it wasn't AS awful as I made it out to be at the time! Although my school was full of commoners lol.

And, hey! Poor guys?? Poor me :rolleyes:

banshee_bones

Hated School, hated that narrow minded- small town mentality. College was grand, better than secondary school for sure! Loved moving away from home, never to return!

mukki

i hated school, i had a few voilant teachers.

hated collage, as i had a fear of teachers/lecturers. people who loved collage probably had very controlling parents, so went mad with the freedom


hated work, i had a fear of managers, then with their poxy meetings, targets, go to the toilet during lunch breaks, twats


I am totally loving unemployment a lie in every day, can do what i want when i want, was on youtube till 4am last night.

Pygmalion

The last couple of years, and hopefully the next couple of years.

Doing my Leaving Cert. now :P

Ciaran500

super-rush wrote: »

My problems back then seem so small compared to problems i might have at the moment.

Thats only true now, back then the problems you had were the biggest thing in your life. There was nothing small or simple about them to you.

whodoo

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Thats only true now, back then the problems you had were the biggest thing in your life. There was nothing small or simple about them to you.

very true. getting bullied was extremely serious back then but ive put it far behind me now. wouldn't go back to secondary school for any money.

tribulus

Really liked school, didn't like college much at all.

Tbh I prefer working, no more being broke or not being broke but having to scab off my parents, I really hated doing that.

sam34

i would hate to return to my school days.
college was good craic, but i dont think they were the best days of my life.

Dudess

Meh, there were aspects to school I liked - the laugh I had with friends, and when it came to the extra-curricular: the thrill of starting to drink, smoke, blagging our way into pubs/nightclubs at 16/17, boys we fancied, clothes-shopping, make-up rituals etc... But the curriculum - well I'd hope it's got a bit more interesting since, because really... The boredom and tediousness of class was just too much at times. It was actually draining - I used to feel so shattered at 4pm. It's a long, long day to be bored out of your mind. I used to find the early starts one of the worst aspects. Why the **** does it have to be so early? Apparently teenagers need to be able to sleep for really long periods of time because of all the growing/developing going on. And yeah, six hours' kip would be plenty for me now, whereas eight hours back then and I'd still be destroyed.

rossie1977

flying _squirl wrote: »

what the hell are you talking about?! school sucked balls!:
no car
had to rely on parents for lifts
incredibly orkward situations with the opposite sex
SPOTS!!!!
there was always a major risk of getting the crap kicked out of you by a group of scumbag for your phone!
couldn't go see movies for over 18s
couldn't drink (well yea we did anyway but you'd get in **** if you got caught)
nobody respected your opinion!
do anything out of the ordinary and your 'gay'

collage was the best time ever!!!
lots and lots of drinking!
loads of like minded people!
drugs!!!
tutors you could talk to and who would respect you as an adult!
girls wanting to experiment!
mad collage holidays!
able to get up late/not NEEDING to always be in on time!
lots of sex!! for god sake think of the sex!
staying out all night, going back to the flat with loadsa mates, play halo and drinking games into the morning, then all falling into collage and have the tutors laugh at the state of you as apposed to giving out **** to you!

oh and no f**king stupid detention!

sums it up pretty well i think

i hated school so much i left, lucky enough i got to go to college (both IT and university) years down the line

DublinWriter

I remember in secondary school one teacher telling us that we shouldn't complain because these are the best years of our lives, to which we retorted "yeah, right!".

Nearly 25 years later I'm still of the same opinion - school sucked, my teen years weren't great and I only started to 'find' myself in my late twenties.

It was only in my 30's when I started to work for myself and assert some independence that things began to click into place.

If anything I think that the here and now is the best time of my life personally.

I see a lot of people either reminiscing for the 'good times' or either wishing their lives away, waiting for the pension and/or the kids to flee the nest.

Compared to the 80's, I live in an age of technological and economic wonder, present conditions aside.

Take it from me, the 70's and 80's sucked in Ireland.

Shacklebolt

I actually like my home village, but I hated secondary school because I was stuck in close proximity to people I despised for 5 years.

entropi

My cherished memories are from the primary school days, v large group of close friends getting up to all sorts of madness, childhood games and always having something to do:) Missed out on teenage and early twenties years of drink and girls due to personal reasons, but now that i'm in college (at 28) its just great again:D So maybe these ones are the best days? i cant quite tell yet...

Dudess

Oh going back to college later is unreal - for me, it was better than the time I spent there immediately after school.

JimiTime

Vinta81 wrote: »

I only did my LC in 2007, but damn looking back I had such a fun time - the silliness of it all. No repsonsibilities etc...

I don't know about anyone else, but the LC still gives me nightmres 10 years on! 'No responsibilities'?? Bloody hell. 'Ok, this is your leaving cert, if ye don't get the results required, you'll be moppin' up puke in McDonalds for the rest of your life. No pressure, begin.' Maybe its a testament to my life now, but the LC days were feckin horrible. Never felt such pressure! College was great though:) Went travelling for a year when I was 21, that was the best year ever!

Dudess

Oh yeah, all that bullsh1t pressure and nonsense about how you HAVE to have a degree to be accepted by society, let alone secure a job - eh... no you don't. Plus, I found the leaving cert WAY tougher than college exams.

homerjay2005

my school was excellent. very rarely had a bad day in there and then it got me to college. college are the best days of your life, school is just school, but i can also understand why people hate.

Vinta81

JimiTime wrote: »

I don't know about anyone else, but the LC still gives me nightmres 10 years on! 'No responsibilities'?? Bloody hell. 'Ok, this is your leaving cert, if ye don't get the results required, you'll be moppin' up puke in McDonalds for the rest of your life. No pressure, begin.' Maybe its a testament to my life now, but the LC days were feckin horrible. Never felt such pressure! College was great though:) Went travelling for a year when I was 21, that was the best year ever!

I was always a pretty good student and I was left to my own devices by my parents when it came to studying, they were really good at giving us the space we needed. Some teachers were mongrels about that whole "this is more important than anything you will ever do crap" they spewed but for the most part, they were alright.

But, yes, right now at 20 things are bloody wicked!

hopalong85

mukki wrote: »

i hated school, i had a few voilant teachers.

hated collage, as i had a fear of teachers/lecturers. people who loved collage probably had very controlling parents, so went mad with the freedom


hated work, i had a fear of managers, then with their poxy meetings, targets, go to the toilet during lunch breaks, twats


I am totally loving unemployment a lie in every day, can do what i want when i want, was on youtube till 4am last night.

yeah sleep all day and watch youtube videos all night, sh!t man, you're living the life!:rolleyes:

hopalong85

schooldays weren't so bad looking back. at the time i couldn't wait to leave but in hindsight there were some good laughs had! dropped out of college early the first time and spent a few years working/drifting/travelling which overall i enjoyed! back in college now and it's good craic, no real responsibilities plus doing a degree i actually enjoy!

Captain-America

I'm in secondary school at the moment, and I love it. I hope they're not the best days of my life though.

JimiTime

Vinta81 wrote: »

I was always a pretty good student and I was left to my own devices by my parents when it came to studying, they were really good at giving us the space we needed. Some teachers were mongrels about that whole "this is more important than anything you will ever do crap" they spewed but for the most part, they were alright.

But, yes, right now at 20 things are bloody wicked!

I was a pretty lazy student, thats probably why I felt the pressure:)

My name is URL

I'd rather be struck down with lupus than return to school

it ruined my lifes work

nehcola

Think the best days of my life are now and in the future. Have never wished to back although I've had plenty of good times. For me, forwards is definitely the way...er...forward!:D

mukki

hopalong85 wrote: »

yeah sleep all day and watch youtube videos all night, sh!t man, you're living the life!:rolleyes:

how was work today?

different strokes for different folks,

i have worked in a lot of different places and different roles,i have been on a lot of foreign holidays, bought brand new cars, but never was truely happy till i was unemployed.


I went for a walk today and gathered up a few branches to light the fire

chilling now watching todays home and away with a cup of tea

back on topic, school was a nightmare

iHeartRyanAdams

i love college i've been back home a couple of days and already i'm going mad with the nagging!

although school was great cos everything was new and mischevious..
headint out at the weekend and having to change driving licences to get into places,
having to dress up to look older,
buying drink after school fri and havin the craic in friends free houses!
yeah i loved the divilment..like would the parents find out!:D

4zn76tysfajdxp

I've been out of school four years and I barely remember doing the leaving cert, I was so indifferent to it. I didn't regard it as a big deal at the time and I'm always bemused by all this talk about "pressure" and "stress."

Earthhorse

School was alright I suppose, though it might not have seemed like it at the time. Made two lifelong friends there so I can hardly complain. College, on the other hand, was a huge dissapointment for me; I was too young starting it and only found my feet in my final year. Since then it's been a mixed bag but I've wasted a lot of time and I'm only starting to make up for it now.

Jigsaw

I think my second and third years of uni were the best years of my life. I had a great time, didn't have to do too much part time work, went out on the piss plenty with my mates and never seemed to run out of money at all. However, life since then has pretty much sucked balls. Definitely think that university life, having that new found freedom and getting out of the family home is a fantastic experience. And yes, I am very much afraid of turning thirty. Whilst stil in my twenties I feel I can still be considered a "young fella". Once you get into your thirties that is the end of that.

rossie1977

Jigsaw wrote: »

Once you get into your thirties that is the end of that.

no :P

Super-Rush

Once you get into your thirties that is the end of that.

You had to mention it

tech77

mukki wrote: »

hated collage, as i had a fear of teachers/lecturers. people who loved collage probably had very controlling parents, so went mad with the freedom

Yeah those collage classes are a killer alright.
Not as bad as the papier-mache syllabus though.

tech77

The thing i remember about my LC was never really understanding why the fcuk the radio/papers etc kept going on about the "stress" of the leaving.

hopalong85

mukki wrote: »

how was work today?

different strokes for different folks,

i have worked in a lot of different places and different roles,i have been on a lot of foreign holidays, bought brand new cars, but never was truely happy till i was unemployed.


I went for a walk today and gathered up a few branches to light the fire

chilling now watching todays home and away with a cup of tea

back on topic, school was a nightmare

don't have a job, i'm a student, if you're happy unemployed, going for walks, watching home and away etc. then fair play dude. no offence though, but your life sounds like hell to me.

Dudess

Yeah, my unemployed days were among some of the most miserable of my entire life.