Count Igor said:
I was wondering.
Because my life is fantastic now (I'm in high school, year 10).
I just spent the last few hours kissing (and more) my dream girl in a field, and god it was perfect in every way.
And I'm pretty worried that it will only go down from here.
So my question is to all those who had a good teenager-time. Does it get better after high school? Or is this the best part of my life, and it all goes down hill from here?
Yes. My mind is working over time from the happiness. Sorry. I'm just slightly worried.
I'm mid 20's, British, and I know your feeling. Life doesn't get better, but it doesn't get worse. It does, however, change a lot. Enjoy what you have no, in no way take it for granted, but also make peace with the idea that it will end. Many people spend their adulthood trying to recreate, or experience for the first time (if they missed it) the feelings you have now, and the fact they can't just makes them miserable.
Enjoy the girl, but remember it might not last. Enjoy the school times, the comradeship, and the feeling of being untouchable, but appreciate that when you leave, and continue on to whatever you choose to, everything WILL change. People will leave, some will die. You'll meet new ones, and you'll loose some of the best ones. You get to move out, live your own life, and be free (in a way you can't comprehend now), but with that gains you an enormous responsibility. You'll get a job, and it may be fun, it may not. Bad things will inevitably happen, but so will good things.
Right now, I'm going through a rough patch. I have a job, but it's not very good. I don't have my own place to live in and am decidedly single, for the longest time since I was around your age. However, the weather brings out the best in people, that smell in the air, dicking about with friends old and new, being happy, and knowing that other people are happy as well (which makes a big difference, trust me). Yeah, things aren't better, but they aren't worse. They're just different. Enjoy every moment you have.