School Days are the Happiest Days of your Life? :: Creative Writing Examples

School Days are the Happiest Days of your Life?When I was given this assignment, my initial response was this is on the loose(p) Half an time of days writing- homework complete. Fifteen minutes laterI find that it is incredibly difficult to sort out the jumble ofthoughts, memories and feelings, that are fight each other in therace to be the first to blot this pristine white page.(melodramatic,but true)I suppose I could take the easy way out, and write that looking backmy school days were happy, unworried days. The sun always shone. I hadno real worries. Friends were plentiful and life was entirely about, fun,fun, fun. fountainhead I could, but that would entail not being completelyhonest. I mean, certainly a not immodest percentage of school,(compared with life today) was carefree but by no means all of it. Myover-riding recollections of school are the memories of never quitefitting in the never quite making it into the in crowd. non that Iwanted in, you understand. I wanted to be different (not anotherlemming) just not so different that I stood out.I blame my generate for that mentality for she drummed it into us all.If I spoke the usual refrain, but all my friends are her responsewas always. if your friend stuck her hand in the fire- would you doit too? Well the answer to that was no, and when you said so, mommawould smile and say, of course not love, you have your own mind.Youre not a lemming dont be afraid to be different. I was go awayfeeling proud of myself for being different, but oh God, I stillwanted that denim jacket, or those Adidas trainers, or to stay out forthat extra half an hour or the myriad of other things that wouldhave enabled me to fit in. Money was always tight when I was atschool. With four kids to buy for - I feel mum used the lemming storyno us, just so she wouldnt have to say I cant afford it. Atschool, every deficit, both real and imagined between you and the incrowd make you insecure. It could be your haircut, shoes or even justthe number of pleats our gym skirt had. (Mine had none.) Plain skirtswere cheaper.Positive Body Image, or lack of it in my case, was a major problem. Iwent through school convinced that I was fat and ugly. Fat? I wasonly 81/2 stones I would kill to be that weight again - and as for my