We were all young once, though sometimes it feels like we've aged too fast in the midst of political meltdowns, ever-present turmoil and global pandemics. It feels like forever since we were so young we trudged ten miles a day through snow up to our waists to get to school (or just took the bus. We know you guys are lying about that). Life was easier back then, and the only thing we really had to worry about was that unreasonably massive pile of homework the public school system gave us every night.

Believe it or not, we all share some very similar experiences when it comes to our childhoods. It's as if we were all kind of the same person back then. We miss the happier days when we would buy those fancy erasers from the Scholastic Book Fair and later be forced to do the FitnessGram Pacer Test tests. These are 20 nostalgic images to take you back to those simpler times.