the second I left mandatory school tho? school suddenly no longer ruled my life. I was told for years that my grades were fundamental for my future and now that I am living on it it turns out that adults don't give a shit about highschool grades, and even less of a shit about primary school grades. yes, having a school degree is useful, but not a single flying shit is given to whether you got an A on maths or a C -an exception may be if you need good grades for an scholarship, but as a young adult you are actually allowed to not want that. you don't automatically become a failure for not organising your life around school.

in fact if you act like your highschool grades are important you'd be seen as childish and immature. talking about your time on mandatory school at all can be seen as immature when you're an adult. as a child school is made to feel like this make-or-break moment that will define the rest of your life, but once you reach that life it turns out that it doesn't even come up naturally in most conversations.

𝙄 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧