Part of the problem is that high school is so often cast as the best years of our lives.
A thoroughly unhealthy attitude. If it's never gonna get better than it was when you were 18, why live the next 60 years at all? Even if high school rocked, c'mon.
But yeah, best and worst - it's an incredibly emotional age, with most of the life passage events packed into it (and a few more are handled over the next few years immediately after graduation for most people), and for some reason that I don't get our brains really really REALLY like our adolescent memories. So of course it has an outsized role in our life history, the BEST or the WORST. (Probably doesn't help that when we were in high school, we still weren't developmentally great at nuance. Getting there!)
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A thoroughly unhealthy attitude. If it's never gonna get better than it was when you were 18, why live the next 60 years at all? Even if high school rocked, c'mon.
But yeah, best and worst - it's an incredibly emotional age, with most of the life passage events packed into it (and a few more are handled over the next few years immediately after graduation for most people), and for some reason that I don't get our brains really really REALLY like our adolescent memories. So of course it has an outsized role in our life history, the BEST or the WORST. (Probably doesn't help that when we were in high school, we still weren't developmentally great at nuance. Getting there!)