Re: (no subject)
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:21:15 -0500 (EST)
Erinn--
I would say High School pretty well sucked for me too. In some ways it
was much harder being a teenager than being 34, despite the previous post
I made on this topic. I will say about that list I made last time is
that each repsonsibility and accomplishment carries with it its own
particular kind of pleasure, and as hard as it has been a good deal of it
has been worth it.
But the problem isn't High School vs. adulthood. It's a "life sucks"
frame of mind. I was well out of High School before I realized that.
There's a sense in which we create and find our own happiness pretty well
regardless of our circumstances. Learning how to do that opens you up to
more tangible forms of happiness and makes making the decisions necessary
to reach them easier, because you become proactive rather than reactive
and tend to view difficulties with a "problem solving" frame of mind
rather than a victim frame of mind.
The more responsibilities you are given and the more successfully you
carry them out the more you grow into this. It takes time. In High
School it starts by doing your homework and then paying attention to the
things that give you pleasure and making time for them.
Jim
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:20:03 -0500 (EST) TravROIS@aol.com writes:
>
>I'm rather sick of all the generalizations made out of the
>highschool/teenage experience (and yes they are generalizations).
>Yea,
>there's a lot of personal opinion on this for me. I hate being a
>teenager (I'm
>newly 15) high school's been a terrible experience for me so far. A
>lot of
>people can say the same. But if, according to some on this list, it's
>only
>going to get harder then why don't we all shoot ourselves
>in our right temple with an Ortgies calibre 7.65 now? High school has
>to be
>better then this, it just has to be. I can understandably see why some
>people
>love high school and reflect upon it with a warm fuzzy feeling, but I
>hope I
>never do. This has probably been said already (in so many words) but
>everyone
>has their own individual opinion and experiences regarding this time
>in their
>lives, so lets all let it be.
>
>And, you can get audio tapes of Lolita read by Jeremy Irons
>(seriously).
>There's a subscription on the very last page of the grey/black book.
>12
>hours, 12 cassettes. For those who don't have it the number
>1-800-726-0600.
>$39.95 plus 6.00 shipping and handling.
>
>Saw Shakespeare In Love (and Life is Beautiful) for the second time,
>yesterday. Weren't the theatres names The Rose and The Curtain in the
>movie?
>Isn't it supposed to be The Globe? And I thought The Thin Red Line and
>thought
>it was very poetic, but that was something I didn't like about it.
>Not even
>sure why I've mentioned that, but hey don't have friends so replace
>them with
>movies -my passion. High school is great, isn't it?
>
>love-Erinn
>
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