Gladiateher said:
I go to a public high school and for me it's always been great. There are stressors but they can all be overcome. I don't know anything about boarding schools but it sounds like you missed alot and i'm sincerely sorry for you. Everyday I see my friends and talk with them, I go to classes which can be challenging but which always reward my efforts. At night I hang out with friends or play video games or both. I get to come home every day and see my family who I love and who help me accomplish all of life's challenges. I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in October and go to bootcamp in September. Every Friday I go workout with the Marines down at the office and they are all genuinely happy to see me. I don't get picked on which probably helps me enjoy school quite a bit, I'm not very big but I have a reputation as a badass just due to my demeanor . I wouldn't say i'm especially popular, but I love my friends, they aren't sports superstars but the teams couldn't win without them. I can't say i genuinely dislike anyone i've met at my school, i'm friends with all kinds of people from jocks and nerds and everywhere in between at all grade levels. I like to flirt with girls but I've never had a girlfriend when I was younger I thought I was in love buy now I know I was just crushing. Life is sweet enjoy what you have. An hour or two per night to center yourself and improve on one thing that you don't like will do wonders. That's what high school was like for me anyway. I'm gonna miss it.
its great to hear somone enjoying life so much (people do tend to be negative)
anyway to be honest I sort of had two phases of Highschool so Ive experienced the good and the bad
first two years I was at home in a small country town school, we were all one big group and great freinds and it was all so carefree, so yeah that was the idealistic time (even though perhaps I didnt apreciate it so much at the time)
then I had to go away to boarding school which actually wasnt that bad (and prbably a fun time for many people), but it was a very stressful time (on top of the social thing, trying to find my way in a school of 900+girls compared to a school of 120 kids, trying to work out what I was going to do, plus I actually became a little depresssed because my grades were so low that I couldnt do the highschool subjects (the ones that give you a score to get into university)
at which point I had somthing of an identity crisis, at least the dumb girls had lots of freinds, socalizing, alchohol,sex and that other stuff, at leasts the nerdy ones had nerdy freinds or if not that acedemic acheivment, and the all rounders...were all rounders
me on the other hand had nothing and I felt like nothing, ask anyone and all they could say about me was I was shy and quiet...and skinny (bigest complitment I ever got) I wsnt good at anything (I was good at art but I gave that up beforehand), had a few freinds but I wasnt even happy with the whole situation and I really belived my life was over
but I got over it and looking back it wasnt too bad...and really it was a much better option than staying at home (I would have been worse off in the long run) so yeah given the chance Id do it all again
anyway It wasnt untill I left school that I really became happy with myself (part of that was embracing my geeky side, now Im more happyer than ever)