by Remembering the “good old days” that were actually terrible
Ah, school days–that magical time when your biggest worries were multiplication tables and whether the cafeteria’s “mystery meat” would murder you before recess. Remember trapper keepers? Those bulky folders that promised organization but mostly just stored your collection of doodles and notes passed in class like contraband. And let’s not forget the sheer terror of “group projects,” where one kid did all the work, two pretended to help, and one was justÂ… missing.
Then there was gym class, a special kind of humiliation Olympics where the “athletic” kids ruled while the rest of us prayed for a meteor strike. Dodgeball wasn’t a game–it was survival of the fittest, and you were *not* the fittest. And why did every school have that one ancient, squeaky pull-up bar that haunted your nightmares? Nobody could use it, yet it remained like a monument to failure.
The cafeteria was its own battlefield. Pizza that could double as a Frisbee, milk cartons that exploded on command, and the unspoken caste system of lunch tables. You weren’t just eating–you were navigating a social minefield where one wrong move could doom you to the “weird kids’ table” forever. And who could forget the existential dread of “pop quizzes”? Nothing like a surprise test to remind you that yes, you *did* forget to study.
But despite the trauma, we look back and laugh–because if we didn’t, we’d cry. School days: the reason therapy exists.
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