[Comics] It Gets Better

[kobold]

I think most of us wish we'd been told this.

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[karlean7]

I didn't need to be told that because I was smart enough to figure it out on my own ^_^

Wait.

;_;

I believe

[biomekanic]

a "FUCK YEAH!" is in order.

When I was in high school a fair number of my classmates talked about how this was the best time of their lives and after graduation it would only get worse.

As they were the popular jock crowd, I bet they're right.

But for, it's only gotten better as the years pass.

[greyduck]

I spent my kids' entire middle- and high-school years reminding them that, yes, it really does get SO MUCH better once you're out of the public school grind.

[fadethecat]

My parents--and older siblings in college--told me repeatedly that neither high school nor college are the Best Years Of Your Life, and that thinking of them that way was a recipe for misery. For which I am eternally grateful.

It did make for a lot of dark looks and very quiet grumbling among my class on stage when one of the speakers pulled out that line during graduation, though. The man was lucky we didn't rise up as a mob and fling those sharp-cornered hats at him then and there.

[editer]

Matt Groening distilled this quite a while back in his "School Is Hell" series: A teacher tells a kid that "these are the best years of your life" and the kid shouts, "YOU MEAN IT GETS WORSE??"