I graduated from high school in 1967, and I rather hated high school and the whole environment there and couldn't wait to get out. The popular vs. the unpopular, the mean girls even then, and I was so happy to be done with it and get on with my life. I didn't even want to attend my h.s. graduation ceremony and my parents didn't underst…
I graduated from high school in 1967, and I rather hated high school and the whole environment there and couldn't wait to get out. The popular vs. the unpopular, the mean girls even then, and I was so happy to be done with it and get on with my life. I didn't even want to attend my h.s. graduation ceremony and my parents didn't understand it. I immediately loved college by comparison because all the high school b.s. was magically gone and people were there to learn. The silliness of high school was all put into perspective when a great English lit teacher I had said this: "Who is the most popular person in this class?" Everyone in the class laughed because we all realized this silly notion no longer had any meaning. However, in today's world and due precisely to the insidiousness of social media, it sure seems like people can never get away from the high school mentality and are locked into its superficiality indefinitely.
1966. I find reunions boring. Quit going. It’s the so called popular ones that try to keep it going. Hardly ever the ones outside the circle like me go. Yawn. Nothing to talk about.
I graduated from high school in 1967, and I rather hated high school and the whole environment there and couldn't wait to get out. The popular vs. the unpopular, the mean girls even then, and I was so happy to be done with it and get on with my life. I didn't even want to attend my h.s. graduation ceremony and my parents didn't understand it. I immediately loved college by comparison because all the high school b.s. was magically gone and people were there to learn. The silliness of high school was all put into perspective when a great English lit teacher I had said this: "Who is the most popular person in this class?" Everyone in the class laughed because we all realized this silly notion no longer had any meaning. However, in today's world and due precisely to the insidiousness of social media, it sure seems like people can never get away from the high school mentality and are locked into its superficiality indefinitely.
1966. I find reunions boring. Quit going. It’s the so called popular ones that try to keep it going. Hardly ever the ones outside the circle like me go. Yawn. Nothing to talk about.
I agree. The people I want to see, I am already in touch with. Don’t care about the rest.
Very similar to my experience a couple of decades later and I agree that it seems like the HS mentality is omnipresent 😕