Best Year of Your Life

Things are pretty slow on the sports front. Baseball is back in full swing after the all-star break and it's still a little early to fully divulge into fantasy football. So with that being said it's time to break into the old bag of trick columns. It's time to decide what really is the best year of your life.

Here are the candidates:

1) Four years old

2) Senior year of high school

3) Freshman year of college

4) Second year of college

5) First year of retirement

Four years old is a good age because school hasn't started yet, you're young enough to have everyone do everything for you, your parents don't really get mad at you for doing anything. But you're a little too young to comprehend everything and life's just a little too simple to qualify as the best year of your life.

For you first year of retirement hopefully you're still young enough to do the things you enjoy. Obviously you don't have to work anymore and you should be financially secure enough to enjoy life. But as good as retirement seems I just can't see it comparing to your youth so that to is out for the best year of your life.

The first year of college is off the charts fun. You're away from home for the first time, there's more girls there then you have ever seen in your life but there the huge adjustment you have to make. You have to make new friends, learn new surroundings, handle a much bigger workload without flunking out. It's fun but it's also tough. So that too is not going to qualify as the best year of your life.

So that leaves two. Your senior year of high school and your second year of university.

Let's break it down

Senior Year of High School

Pros: You're young so you have no real responsibilities, School's free so there is no monetary pressure on you. You can now drive, everything is familiar to you and you run the school, your a big fish in a small pond and everyone knows and respects you. You get to chill with your friends who you've known for way too long and you guys all talk and think the same. Plus after you get accepted into college school becomes a joke. All you have to do is pass so there is basically no work being done. Plus if you played high school sports like I did you know there is nothing like it. You get to walk around school like a big wheel and play in front of the whole school, it's sheer fun the way sports should be, nothing beats high school sports. You also know all of the good looking girls in the school and you're comfortable talking to them. Plus the most underrated part of high school is when the weather turns warm around May and early June and the girls start to wear short skirts and everything just turns very chilled out and nostalgic because you know you probably won't see most of the people again.

Cons: You still live with your parents and your ready to bust out so there's tension there. At the start of the year there's big time pressure to get into college. Even though you are comfortable with all the girls at school you get a little too comfortable and could use some new blood. At school they don't give you much freedom. They call home if you skip class and you still have to get your parents to sign your report card.


Second Year of College

Pros: Your familiar with your surroundings and you've made new friends but are still fairly tight with some people from high school, You're away from home and have all the freedom you could imagine. There's girls everywhere plus you got first dibs on the incoming frosh because they like more mature guys like you. The real world is still a few years away so you don't feel that pressure. There's non stop parties and thousands of people just like you. You get some major holiday breaks like three weeks for Christmas and close to five months for summer. They don't make you do monotonous things for school work and you don't have to go if you don't want to. Playing on a varsity athletic team brings big time prestige.

Cons: You never get that feeling like your a big deal. Playing varsity sports takes up huge amounts of time and it's way tougher competition than high school. Lots of times when you see a good looking girl walking down the hall of a building you'll never see her again. School costs a lot of money so there's pressure to make money in the summer and perform in school. School's over before it gets really warm so you never get to experience the thrill of when the short skirts come out.

So there you have it when you break it down logically it comes down to personal preference. Do you prefer the freedom of college or the ability to be a big fish in a small pond in high school? I think college is more universally liked because being cool in college doesn't matter whereas in high school being unpopular can be miserable but my personal preference is the last year of high school to me nothing beats those care free days. Man I miss them.