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"The Real World"

What is it with 'The Real World'?

As soon as you come out of your shell and into work.
Everybody around you starts to say,
"Welcome to the real world!", or "Well, this is the real world now, and it sucks."

Why do people have to say that?

Whenever somebody says it to me, I get this uncontrollable anger and feel like puking up over them.
It's like they feel big and powerful for saying it when really it's just words.

Answer me this.

Whether you're in school or not, isn't *that* the real world too?
You're still exposed to all the things going on in the world, be it death, war, rape.
Yet when you get out of school, that's when people start saying it.
What, do they say it because we've suddenly 'grown up' and got our qualifications?

Why do people consider working to be the real world?

I don't think there is such thing as 'the real world'.

Views pleashe thankyou! ;)

tigamilla wrote:
> Lil_Ginge wrote:
> tigamilla wrote:
> Funny that -Ive got a friend from Essex who has an ex-boyfriend from
> the very same under 19s team...
>
> Maybe its the same guy...
>
>
> Not Gemma?
>
> Nope... its Ruth...

Darn - same team wrong man though! Weird none the less..

Lil_Ginge wrote:
> tigamilla wrote:
> Funny that -Ive got a friend from Essex who has an ex-boyfriend from
> the very same under 19s team...
>
> Maybe its the same guy...
>
>
> Not Gemma?

Nope... its Ruth...

School is like a prison (crap similie I know..).

You are shut off from the world for 7 or so hours - Kept in one place and everything is controlled for you. Teachers tell you what to do, Order you around, Shun you into set class rooms, Give you homework..

Everything in school is a routine.

Which obviously is unlike what they call the "real world", Unpredictable.

When you're young, you've got hardly any responsibilitys, maybe tucking the old porn mag away so no-one finds it, but you've just got to do pretty much simple things. Once you leave school, You're out of that 'prison' style enviroment and you're let free.

This is where the responsibilities arise, You've got no-one to order you around, tell you where to go - You have to do that. You take up one hell of a lot of things, like finding work, paying rent/morgage, kids, money, car etc.

Thats why the term "real-world" is usually used. The real world afterall, is what you make of it.

Hmmm...I'm not inclined to agree. Different circumstances though. I loved Uni and would love to regress back to being 17-18 again.

I hated school with a passion, I would never ever want to go back.
College I loved though, would gladly return to being 17 and at college.

Although having said that, I'm having the time of my life now. Since I hit mid-twenties, life just seems to get easier and more fun.

The thing is...memory is selective. You never remember the hardships you went through, only the good memories. Which is why most people enjoyed school/uni so much. I still remember having to scrape a living on a tenner a week sometimes but that's just a distant memory now...

I think by "real" world, they mean you only have to worry about homework and peer-pressure.

Not mortgages, loans, repayments, kids, jobs, cars, relationships, taxes etc etc.

cookie monster wrote:
> Well in a way what they say is true. School really isn't "real
> life", school was crap everyone will admit that, but its a sugar
> coated world compared to working 9-5 for 5 days a week.
>
> *Shrugs*

That's exactly what was on my mind, yet I couldn't seem to put that into words. Sugar-coated world. Nice!

The real world is everything around us, the Internet may be classes as "an escape from reality" - it isn't. It is part of the world just like fields and hippies and stuff.

Unless you take a Matrix-esque angle, then nothing is real...

Well in a way what they say is true. School really isn't "real life", school was crap everyone will admit that, but its a sugar coated world compared to working 9-5 for 5 days a week.

*Shrugs*