We all know that one person in love with high school. They could be 40 years old and still posting about how they would die to go back to high school and how much they miss the “best days of their life.” Maybe that person is you. Maybe you find yourself saying, “high school was the best days of my life. I would give anything to go back.”

1. If high school was the best days of your life, you have cheated yourself.

When someone says that high school was the best days of their life, that usually means they got too comfortable in that season of life. They may have been the most popular girl or boy in the school. They might have gotten all the dates. They might have been homecoming queen and prom queen. They might have been the star quarterback. Whatever they might have been they found their “identity” in that four years of high school.

They grew as much as they needed to in those four years and they see no need to grow anymore. They probably found their soulmate, their best friends and their forever enemy in those four years. The four years of high school has turned into their whole entire life.

If you are that person, I am not trying to offend you. I am trying to make an argument. Hear me out.

2. A series of four years of waking up at 6 a.m., wearing the coolest clothes, having the hottest hair style (even if it costs $200), trying your best to impress a senior boy and always hearing and being around drama...these are not the best days of your life – solely because TODAY is.

Yeah, I guess high school was the best days of my life, while I was in it. Going to Friday night football games, having endless amounts of slumber parties, eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted was the best days of my life, but only from freshman year to senior year.

It seemed like if anything graduation was the best day of my life. That day, I saw that I have a future in front of me and I have to take hold of it with everything in me. I have to take advantage of the resources I have been given. I have to take advantage of the knowledge I have gained in the past 13 years of my life and use it to get more knowledge. I have to take advantage of every opportunity, because it is what I have been given.

I am now an upcoming sophomore in college. It would be easy to say that these days, college is the best days of my life. I am figuring out who I am and what I want in life. I am figuring out what is important and what it isn’t. I am also figuring out that I do not have the same metabolism I had in high school…and that stinks. College is the best days of my life – solely because I am in it, right now.

3. Whatever phase of life that you are in right now is the best days of your life.

If you are a high schooler who is trying to find their way in this world – today is the best day of your life.

If you are a graduate or a recent graduate of high school who is enjoying your last summer before college – today is the best day of your life.

If you are a college student who is trying to earn extra money and enjoy every second of your youth – today is the best day of your life.

If you are a newlywed who is trying to learn to cook and clean and be a wife and still have your sanity – today is the best day of your life.

If you are a parent who is wishing that your kid would just stop growing for one second – today is the best day of your life.

If you are a grandparent who loves spending your days with grandchildren – today is the best day of your life.

4. Do not label just one series of years the “best days of your life.” Do not cheat yourself of this life. Enjoy every day to your fullest. Do not dwell on the past. Grow every day. Strive to be a better version of yourself every day.

Friend, today is the best day of your life because you are alive, you are breathing, and you are blessed.