Belief

Am I the only one who thought that high school was ridiculously hard?

Like- it was socially difficult to be in school.
Too many people knew you and what you were up to. And nobody was just chill.

Except for my friend Brian. He was pretty chill.

First, classes started at like 7:30, which means you had to get up at like 6:30, which is waaaaay to flipping early to be alive.
And, sure, you "got home" at like 3:30 if you didn't do any extra curriculars, but by this time your brain was so fried from being inside all day all you could really do was eat salsa and watch That 70s Show. And then you had to do like 2 hours of trig homework and study for AP US History some time before you went to bed.

Then, the classes were a lot harder. I'm not talking about your average English or history class. I'm talking about honors and AP classes where you actually had to be a good writer to get an A. And I'm not really complaining about those because they actually made me a better writer. I'm complaining about the stupid classes like chemistry and physics where nothing ever made sense.

I still don't believe in the atomic theory.

And then there were people. OH, THE PEOPLE.
Maybe it's just something about that age where everyone is just completely intolerant of everyone else. Opinionated. Ignorant. And, worst of all, loud.

It just amazes me that 3.5 years later, I'm still able to complain about how bad high school was.
Maybe it's because I've grown up a lot since then, but my life is so much easier and less stressful now than it ever was.
I remember dreading Sunday nights back then because they meant the end of fun and the beginning to a week of terribleness. But now I'm like- oh, Monday? It's just another easy day.
Maybe I've begun to handle it all better.
Or maybe it's just Mike.

And everyone was like, "College is harder than high school."
And teachers in college are like, "Work is a lot harder than college" and that we'll wish we were in Intermediate III when we get out into the real world.
(maybe this is the case if you work in auditing...?)

I don't believe any of it because college, even grad school, is way easier than high school, and my work experiences have been way easier than college.

Even when the paths are all crookedy,
TWS