>>152894>>152893People don't see youth as golden because of school, people see youth as golden because, you know, they're often better physically during the last portion of it than they are later on. Also because, you know, it defines you to a large extent and it's a period where the future is
ahead of you, there's a very strong illusion at that age that stuff will get better, and for some
it does.A lot of people fall
way out after all this. Friends are left behind, connections are lost, and as this goes on, their bodies begin to fall apart. If they're lucky, they will work dull, pointless jobs for the rest of their lives, running out of energy, decaying, bloating, living like rotting corpses, only to
barely be able to afford to continue such a lifestyle. They look back to a period where they had more energy, more hair, more hope, and they say that, even with the flaws of subjugation acknowledged, they have some fondness for those recollections. Of course, some of them had a genuinely good school experience, too; plenty of teachers are more agreeable than plenty of bosses… that's not really the main point, though.