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How School Made My Life Hell

I think the education system is awful.

Whenever I was in school, particularly my final years of secondary school, school made my life a living hell, honestly.

It was bad enough having to deal with the stress from exams, from my parents, from teachers, or the boring routine that I had to follow every day there, and how I was basically sleep-deprived every single day because of course, whenever I was younger, I maximised the dopamine whenever I got home from school so that would end up with me staying up late with my friends, whatever, and the cycle repeats.

But particularly school was absolutely horrendous in my final few months because, you see, in secondary school, on my final year, I had this friend I would talk to in my class in my year group and that was fine but he unfortunately left midway through.

After that I had no choice but to go to this group of "friends" but I would quickly realise that they were not my friends, "friends", and instead they just used me as a source of entertainment, honestly, and it started off small…

They would joke here and there but it got progressively worse and worse and it hurt me more each time.

Whenever it first started, sure, I can take a joke.

There's nothing wrong with that but it progressively got worse and worse and it was like I was their source of entertainment because they would just push my buttons until I just lost it, which was, very honestly, about two times actually.

I did get seriously angry but most of the time I was just jokingly angry, if you know what I mean.

I already did not like school but now I had to worry about: having zero friends in my classes and at lunch and break times I had to deal with these fake horrible "friends".

That made my life absolutely horrendous and I wouldn't wish that on anyone because it was traumatic.

It was so bad and I don't think I've ever felt as tired as those evenings whenever I would come home from school after a day like that.

I'm really grateful I'm not at school now.

I just want to say if you relate to that then let me just tell you what I would do if I could turn back time:

Have some self-respect.

What do I mean by this?

Instead of caring about your social status so much that you think, "Oh I need to be with friends someone or need to be with people at lunch or break or else," that's not socially acceptable.

Honestly, screw that. If your "friends" are harassing you, they're pushing your buttons, they're trying to make you go really angry, they're not friends.

I would tell myself to literally just, honestly it sounds cringe, sit inthe disabled toilets by yourself and bring your phone or your laptop and work on your business or something.

Sure it is pretty embarrassing lol but you’d be way better off.

2. Take advantage of all the time to think, to journal, whenever you're in class and it's a free period or whatever.

That could really be beneficial for you.

3. Have a good sleeping routine, non-negotiable, because I think that honestly added so much fuel to the fire because my sleep was so bad.

I remember staying up in a Discord with a friend the night school before until about 4 or 5 AM watching some TV show together or something and then I would have to get up for school in three hours, and we done that for weeks together!

That must have been so bad for my health and for my happiness.

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How School Made My Life Hell