5 Things High School Taught Me | Lifestyle

I think that we can all agree on the fact that while high school is not the best time in our lives for most of us, there are a lot of things that you learn throughout the years you spend there - whether it's through some kind of enlightenment or the hard way.

There's always debates going on that our school system does not teach its students things that might be useful later on in life, which I will wholeheartedly agree on because I have not once needed trigonometry after moving out, but y'know, a cooking lesson might've been helpful.

But let's take a look at the actually valuable lessons you should learn throughout your high school years.

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1. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

High school is the time when everyone's still pretty much trying to figure out who they are, and with that comes experimenting.
I've had my fair share of, well, let's call them interesting, outfits that I liked to sport throughout my school career, and even though now I cringe when I think about them, wearing those made me realize that it doesn't matter if anyone thinks that those jeans made my butt look huge, or if the color of my sweater didn't appeal to my classmates - it was me who had to feel good in them.

And that's a situation that all of us have to face not only in school, but in every day life as well.


2. Procastinating is not an option.

I'm by no means lazy - I think it's that crippling feeling of anxiety that I get deep down in my stomach when I'm not doing the work I was assigned that keeps me from procastinating - but sometimes, I will just have enough and tell myself that that essay can wait. For a few weeks. Until the night before it's due.

I had to eventually realize that that's not how I was going to get good grades, and that tackling a task shortly after you get it, step by step, so that you will hopefully be finished long before the deadline is way better for both your grades, and mostly your nerves.


3. Most of the things you worry about now won't matter in three months.

Our teenage years are all about the drama, and about 99% of it is completely unnecessary.
Whether you're currently having a meltdown over exams, or teacher, your friends or the game you lost last week, but believe me, in a few months time, you will be looking back at all of those and shake your head at how you could get so worked up about them - if you even remember them at all.


4. Never underestimate the significance of friendship.

High school is tough, and while people like to say that those are the greatest years of our lives, for most students, school resembles hell. The only things that makes the hours that you spent there more worthwhile are your friends, people who can make you laugh - even though you'd rather cry and/or smash your head into your table, people you can rely on for help.


5. Hard work does pay off in the end.

No one likes studying for hours on end, and neither do I, if I'm being honest, but I found that sacrificing those hours in order to revise the things we learnt in class, or to look something up, to write notes, it does show in my grade. Always.

Obviously, you can't go into an exam without any preparation and think that you'll ace it. That could never happen. But don't think that you're wasting your time for nothing when you're starring at your notes, because all the time you invest pays off.


What is something that school taught you?

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