• Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I know it’s not exactly the point of the post but I want to go on a tangent and note that it’s 100% valid for kids to complain about school even if you have it harder. You should take their feelings seriously because their feelings are just as real to them as you hating your job is to you. When a toddler spills their juice and starts crying, those feelings are just as intense as yours, and you should respond accordingly instead of thinking “don’t they know about the wars in the middle east?”

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I had an absolutely terrible time in my small underfunded high school due to chronic illness, family tragedy, coming from a poor home, and just generally not having that many friends. I got picked on, I struggled intensely with untreated ADHD and depression, and was just all together miserable.

        But to spite all that, I completely understand what people mean when they say they miss that period of their life, and I’d never seek to make them think they’re wrong for feeling that. There’s a weird defensiveness about this topic where people seem to feel anyone else having any sort of positive association with that period of time somehow invalidates their own hardships.

        High School is not a good or bad thing. It’s just a thing. An experience that was different for everyone. It’s okay to leave it at that.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Babies cry because whatever happened was the worst thing they can ever remember happening

    • Tankton@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yeah. The people who long for the freedom of school life sure fucked something up in their adult life.

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    Yeah, but have you considered that you don’t get paid to go to school?

    Nostalgia is a very strong thought, but being a grown-up means that sadly, there is a lot of things in life you’ll have to give up because of money and responsibilities.

    But life is short, there is no reason to not live your dreams and enjoy life and be a kid again once in a while. Do something crazy, say something stupid, go see your friends every day not because you have to, but because you want to, have fun again.

  • Eochaid@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    The answer isn’t nostalgia for school. The answer is to improve work with the “perceived” benefits of school. 30-hour work weeks, 6 weeks paid vacation, paid holidays including bank holidays, occasional half days after the end of a big project, chatting with coworkers that aren’t stressed out of their mind and actually given the mental space to be chill with you.

    That’s the real dream.