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

Super-Rush · 09-06-2009 05:24PM #1

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 · 09-06-2009 05:26PM

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

Roll on college.

Mr Benevolent · 09-06-2009 05:27PM

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 · 09-06-2009 05:27PM

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

TheZohanS · 09-06-2009 05:28PM

I hated secondary school, but loved college.

Super-Rush · 09-06-2009 05:29PM

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

4zn76tysfajdxp · 09-06-2009 05:30PM

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

admiralofthefleet · 09-06-2009 05:35PM

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

Super-Rush · 09-06-2009 05:35PM

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 · 09-06-2009 05:36PM

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 · 09-06-2009 05:37PM

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 · 09-06-2009 05:46PM

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

flying _squirl · 09-06-2009 05:53PM

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 · 09-06-2009 06:11PM

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 · 09-06-2009 06:19PM

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 · 09-06-2009 06:19PM

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 · 09-06-2009 06:23PM

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 · 09-06-2009 06:29PM

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 · 09-06-2009 06:34PM

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 · 09-06-2009 06:46PM

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

Doing my Leaving Cert. now :P

Ciaran500 · 09-06-2009 06:54PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:00PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:05PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:13PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:15PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:22PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:30PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:31PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:34PM

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 · 09-06-2009 07:42PM

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

JimiTime · 09-06-2009 07:42PM

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!

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

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