A School Life I Enjoyed and Later Questioned
Remembering a school life I enjoyed, and examining the expectations I carried from it into adulthood.
MY ADOLESCENCE
A School Life I Enjoyed and Later Questioned
Most of my adolescence was spent in an all-boys residential school. Contact with my family was largely during holidays, and my connection with the wider world was limited.
I enjoyed those years. The education was good, and school became the world within which I grew up.
Yet, looking back, I consider that upbringing imbalanced. It carried a strong military style and an idealistic view of how people should think and behave. At that age, I had little experience against which to examine what I was absorbing.
The difficulty became clearer later, when I encountered a world that did not behave according to those expectations. Thoughts that had once seemed entirely right became a source of internal conflict and suffering.
I can value my school years and still question parts of their influence. Both belong to my story.
I am still examining how much of what I carried into adulthood was my own considered understanding, and how much I had accepted before I knew enough to question it.
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