Was I Lied To?

They say these are our Golden Years yet nothing on this road seems to be shining except for the big sign of depression, insecurity and overbearing emotions.
They say these years are the best years of our life but I just want to age past them. 
But life is not a clickable link
I can't skip ahead to my twenties. liberating is not the word I would use to describe teenage years.
They say we are supposed to use these years to build our futures expand our possibilities but all these years have done is shrink our minds into a universal uniform.