Taking stock of my life

[Mervi]

Maybe that's why some people say 'oh school days are the best days of your life' - although I personally wanted to strangle people who said that. Now that I'm older I think geees those people must have had seriously sad lives if that was true for them!!

Well I don't know. It really depends on the school and the people. I've had experiences from both ends of the spectrum - a truly wonderful class that did everything together & had tons of fun and even the teachers loved us (which I think was remarkable considering we were aged ~14-16 around that time!) And for me that time IS still very special and amazingly enough I realised even back then how wonderful it was. So it's not just nostalgia. What I'm trying to say is that it wasn't so great for a lack of anything else good in my life and that it was more or less a collective experience in that class (well not every day of course, life is not PERFECT - you know what I mean).
But then after that there was a school where I was really miserable (for a lot of reasons, but not really for lack of friends though) and I finally could sympathize with people who said they hated school (a concept that had been really alien for me before that).