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Recession and inflation chase each other in hopeless circles. A brave union movement is crushed under martial law. A school system closes for lack of money. World leaders are threatened by a spree of assassination attempts. Politicians speak of limited nuclear war.” In these uncertain days, is it any wonder we begin seeking an escape from reality? Memories of the past can provide this escape. People remember the simplicity of earlier days when it seemed they had less to worry about and little to fear. Nostalgia is becoming very popular today. With the maturing of the post-war baby boom children, the average age of our population has risen, post-war baby boom children, the average age of our population has risen. Today people old enough to remember the so-called good old days have become a very influential and vocal part of society. Pressure groups such as the controversial Moral Majority push for a return to the ethics of several decades ago. The election of Ronald Reagan has triggered a conservative swing in our government. Advertising campaigns like the memory-evoking Kool-Aid commercials take advantage of the popularity of nostalgia by romanticizing the simplicity and quality products of the past. Organizations in town have hopes of restoring Traverse City’s many historic neighborhoods and old buildings such as the opera house. 4
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For twelve years we feel trapped. The days drag while we impatiently wait for graduation and freedom. But school is not a period of waiting for our real life to begin. School is living; each moment was once now, a present that instantly became the past. The time spent at school is full of the pain, love, joy and frustration necessary, not to grow up, but to live. For some students the pain and frustration seem to outweigh the joy. Peer pressure and the unfeeling way we treat each other can make school a painful experience. Yet in a few years, we may look back with nostalgia on the thing we claimed to hate. School teaches us more than bare facts and techniques. Because we are surrounded by our peers, we learn the vital skills of communicating and making friendships that sometimes last a lifetime. Most importantly, at school we experience emotions and thoughts. When we look back, that football game or shared joke or class discussion may seem minor compared to all the momentous events that happen in life, but perhaps we wouldn't be the same people without them. How can we look back on 1982 without thinking of school? It has to play a significant part in our lives because it takes up so much of our lives. What did we do with our time? How did we live? Everyone has a golden time he likes to remember. School is often this time — who of us hasn't heard the old, familiar tale of how our parents trudged six miles barefoot through the snow to school? We all have memories we like to savor and share: of special people and places, things done and said. 3
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