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May I ask, are you under 40? As it was around that age in which the memories of all those adults saying "school, best time of your life, enjoy it whilst you c
by Zenst 7y ago
May I ask, are you under 40? As it was around that age in which the memories of all those adults saying "school, best time of your life, enjoy it whilst you can" and thinking "you crazy fool, silly adults" and retrospectively at 40, thinking "Hmmm, now I get it, now I get it".
- barrkel 7y agoI am not, alas. I enjoyed college more than school because I specialized in more things that I was better at, whereas school moved way too slowly in the things that interested me (I was the kind of guy who bunked off school and did math problems from the textbook in the woods) and forced me to attend things I deeply disliked, to this day. And besides all that, the degree to which I "fitted in" was mediocre; it was no social picnic. My 30s were much better than my 20s, and 20s better than my teens; though some of my fondest memories are of the ages 10~14, outside school not in it, reading books and following my programming interests divorced of curriculum. I'm hoping the rest of my 40s are a similar step up from my 30s; and we've got a baby boy on the way in a couple of weeks. We'll see.