Life experences you found over hyped

[someonehairy-ish]

Dolphins.

Fuck dolphins. I got cock blocked by a dolphin.
No, really. I was on a cruise, family were with me, I had a date lined up with someone on the ship. Family are like 'oh there's a dolphin show on, come with us.' I say no, obviously. And they have a massive go about me not spending enough time with them on the holiday. No shit, there were people my age on the ship.
In the end I had to cancel the date.

That's why fuck dolphins.

Being able to drink is awesome. Nothing better than going to the pub with mates after (or sometimes during) college. But being able to do it legally does mean that I hardly ever bother getting very drunk, I just get merry instead.

 

[Eamar]

Losing my virginity, but not really for the same reasons others have mentioned.

I don't know what guys expect, but as a girl I was always told it was going to hurt and be awkward. It didn't really and it wasn't really. It wasn't incredible, but it wasn't bad either and I had fun (and no, I wasn't in some serious, loving relationship with the guy to distract me from the discomfort or whatever).

Furthermore, I was always led to believe that, despite the "inevitable" discomfort and awkwardness it was going to be some massive event in my life that changed me forever. Yeah... not so much. Don't get me wrong, I really love sex, but popping my cherry just wasn't that big of a deal for me.

 

[Bat Vader]

The whole thing about Highschool being a fun experience was a lie. I am glad I graduated back in 2006. I found graduation to be completely boring. I wish I had stayed home. Birthdays are not really special to me, I view them as just another day.

I never went to prom but I am guessing I would have found it boring as well.

 

[Eamar]

College.

Let me tell you a secret. College is hard.

Also this. I'm at a very prestigious university, and yes, obviously I knew it was going to be difficult when I accepted my place, but I'd expected more of a balance. My university also has an incredibly inconvenient reputation for being oh so glamorous and jolly good fun, old chap (I'm British and said reputation is significantly dated). If I (or any of my friends who are also hating the experience) dare to complain we get dismissed out of hand, even though most of the people doing the dismissing (parents, friends at other universities) know nothing about the place except what they've been fed the by the various media.

Why yes, I am bitter, why do you ask?

 

[applesandoranges]

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[axlryder]

College.

Let me tell you a secret. College is hard.

And engineering will suck out your soul through your nose if you're not careful.

What branch of engineering are you going into?

Civil Engineering. I've mainly focused on water treatment, and environmental classes. The structural and highway work just isn't as interesting. I get the degree in about a month. It's been a long long road.

How about you?

Oh, I'm going for a computer science degree now, but my best friend is also almost finished with his mechanical engineering degree. From what he's told me they run you engineering majors pretty ragged. Props to you for managing to get through it.

 

[Vault101]

attutude is a very important thing...and can dictate how you experience certain things

for me I was told that highschool would be "the best time of my life" *snnrrrk* yeah right..fucking liars

They say that it's the time of your life because it only goes downhill from there. I know only a single adult that admits this.

yeah they actually said that too "its all downhill from here"

I mean what the fuck? why would you tell me this? do you think Im just going ot turn around and say "gosh! your right! time for me to be happy and wait untill the end of all happyness in my life!"

I hate that line of thinking, greanted adult life is hard, but fuck that highschool was crap and Im a million times happyer now than I was then so screw them

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Honestly, Prom.

Before I start getting any replies, yes, I did go to Prom, and yes, I did enjoy it. Seriously though, it is hyped like crazy and it's considered the best night your high school years. This is obviously coming from shallow people with no true friends and a lack of perspective to what "being popular" amounts to (i.e. absolutely nothing).

I went with a group of friends who all decided to not take dates and to just enjoy the night as singles. We laughed, we ate, took pictures, danced a lot, and I got a few kisses and hugs from girls who I was slightly interested in. Overall, it was great, but not "amazing" as many before me have speculated.

The best night of my high school years was when I took my first love to another more enjoyable and awesome dance.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Drinking. The fun I get from drinking comes from being around friends who are also drinking. Drinking alone doesn't do much for me.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

When I drink alcohol I suddenly feel like I'm less than I am, so turning 21 was just another ordinary day.

When I smoke I feel like I'm inhaling death, so turning 18 was just another ordinary day.

 

[MorganL4]

attutude is a very important thing...and can dictate how you experience certain things

for me I was told that highschool would be "the best time of my life" *snnrrrk* yeah right..fucking liars

Yeah, I got told the same thing, it wasn't bad... I didn't get bullied or anything, in fact I don't think anyone at my school got bullied, I mean the football team was crap so they couldn't laud superiority over the geeks in the band who got to play at the Olympics and NFL football games. And a gay band geek/cheerleader was homecoming king my sophomore year. But despite the overwhelming acceptance of everyone that existed at my school I would hardly say it was the best time of my life, I basically was bored most of the time, which is why I spent my senior year at a community college.

 

[Vault101]

attutude is a very important thing...and can dictate how you experience certain things

for me I was told that highschool would be "the best time of my life" *snnrrrk* yeah right..fucking liars

Yeah, I got told the same thing, it wasn't bad... I didn't get bullied or anything, in fact I don't think anyone at my school got bullied, I mean the football team was crap so they couldn't laud superiority over the geeks in the band who got to play at the Olympics and NFL football games. And a gay band geek/cheerleader was homecoming king my sophomore year. But despite the overwhelming acceptance of everyone that existed at my school I would hardly say it was the best time of my life, I basically was bored most of the time, which is why I spent my senior year at a community college.

yeah. my highschool experience was neither great or terrible...it just was

though I can think of 2 phases I had

first highschool we were a small comunity (there since day one) so our year was a reasonable sized but close knit groupe of freinds, everything was simple, go to school, hang out (I may be Idealising it now though..I probably am)

phase 2 when I went to a bigger school in the city, I had to deal with making freinds and the added preasure of actual schoolwork and "what do you want to do after school?" which was now a looming event

and then I seriously wished I could have just gone back to when things were "simple" which they were simpler, less stress, but not without issue (like the amount of shitheads that really belonged anywhere BUT school...at least in the private systm they weed them out and put them where they shoudl be)

anyway I guess my point is...can somthing really be considered the "best time of your life" when you actually didnt think it was that great at the time? as they say heindsight is 20/20

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Drinking-meh, started when I was 19 and was around drinkers since child hood so it was never a big deal for me
Graduation-Meh, boring, idd it for the folks and grand folks
Driving-Pretty awesome since I live in a spread out area with piss poor public transit
The one thing that ended up being pretty awesome was sex, but that was largely cause I found the right person and she likes to experiment in kink as much as I do :3

 

[Launcelot111]

My 21st birthday was the same as birthdays 11-20, in which I went out to dinner with my parents and aunt and uncle. Nothing changed, I'd been drinking for years. I knew that bars were crap and that most alcohol in my price range tastes like crap. Just because I'm 21 doesn't mean that anything about drinking has improved except for the lack of legal risks (although people keep rejecting my driver's license when I'm trying to buy beer).

Also college. Maybe it was part of my college choice, but so many people at my school were wildly pretentious asses, professors were often unbearably haughty or neglectful of their undergrad students, courses I actually want to take fill up before my registration time, several hundred person lectures are trash, college parties are pretty lame, and I started getting donation requests before I even graduated from the damn place. Best four years of my life? If I was feeling generous, I would award one of my favorite four years to college

 

[Bertylicious]

I was deeply dissapointed by the first blowjob I got. I had it all built up in my mind to be this wonderful feeling of sensual bliss.

Turned out to be very boring.

Because she probably didn't have enough practice, unlike a porn star?

Well this is it! Well, not about the porn star or the practice, but the observation that I've never had a good blowjob. And what makes a good blowjob? A good blowjobber?

It's got to be about passion. About desire for one's throbbing gristle.

Some of us here will have found a good blowjob. Something that embraces them with passion and fills them with joy, excitement and an overwhelming desire to go forward in life to achieve greatness!

 

[CruisingForBiddies]

I was deeply dissapointed by the first blowjob I got. I had it all built up in my mind to be this wonderful feeling of sensual bliss.

Turned out to be very boring.

I think that pretty much every sexual encounter when you are young is just awkward. It comes down to a lack of experience and teenage emotions. I remember my first hand-job was terrible,she pulled down to hard and hurt my willy

 

[Bertylicious]

I was deeply dissapointed by the first blowjob I got. I had it all built up in my mind to be this wonderful feeling of sensual bliss.

Turned out to be very boring.

I think that pretty much every sexual encounter when you are young is just awkward. It comes down to a lack of experience and teenage emotions. I remember my first hand-job was terrible,she pulled down to hard and hurt my willy

I will light a candle for your poor, torn, foreskin.

My first sexy times were pretty amazing to be fair.

*stares wistfully out of the window*

Women are great.

What were we talking about? Oh yes! Life. I guess it can all be sumarised by that detective in The Wire; "life is what happens in between moments that never come". Have you ever had an experience, a life experience, that did live up to the hype?

 

[EeveeElectro]

Falling in love, it creates more hurt than it does joy. Especially if you're like me and you get stupidly paranoid if someone even looks at your partner, or they don't give you the attention you want. I sometimes wish I didn't have the capacity to feel love, then people wouldn't hurt me so much. /emo.
High school was shit. I haven't used much of what they taught me IRL, aside from maths and English. The prom was good but it didn't feel special to me. I didn't make much of an effort, didn't have a date or go in a limo. I just hung around with friends and danced.

 

[Slayer_2]

Might be the first one to say this, but sex. Society makes it seem like the best thing ever, then my first time was like a wet firecracker: "really? That's it"?