Is high school ever really over?
The other day, I was watching the Jane Austen Book Club (an excellent movie that I would highly suggest if you have not seen it) and in one scene, a woman gets in a fight with her husband and she says to him “High school is never over.” reading another question tonight reminded me of this and I would like to hear ideas from everyone, even those who haven’t yet graduated from high school and those who never graduated from or even went to high school.
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Its always there, ur mistakes will chase u forever
Bowling for Soup couldn’t have put it better with High School Never Ends
4 Years you think for sure
That’s all you’ve got to endure
All the (total dicks)
All the Stuck-up Chicks
So superficial, so immature
Then When you graduate,
Ya take a look around and you say “Hey Wait!”
This is the same as where I just came from,
I thought it was over, Aw that’s just great.
The Whole Damn World is just as obsessed
With who‘s the best dressed and (who’s havin’ sex)
Who‘s got the money. Who (gets the honeys)
Who‘s kinda cute and who‘s just a mess
High school is in no way a part of my daily thoughts. It was a joke and I learned very little. I think some people choose to carry out the same petty drama learned in their high school years but, personally, I can barely remember those days.
Who knows, perhaps it’s because I surfed before/after school and didn’t have time for such nonsense.
For some people, no. I’d hope most of us outgrow that crap!
@peedub: I don’t necessarily mean whether or not people still deal with all of the petty stuff that happened, I mean, yeah, that is a part of it, but what about the way high school affected you? I am a completely different person than I was in high school and occasionally I get ambushed by someone who I would much rather forget about, but what about other stuff like insecurities, drives, hell, even certain habits? Does this stuff ever go away?
Fortunately, yes. Some people get over it as soon as it ends, but it’ll always be something that matters to others.
Second to the actual education, the only thing that matters at high school is the networking. Make friends with people who you think will go far and build a network of successful, hard working peers. People you can learn from and support you when you really need it. Obviously, dont be a leech, and always try to be as useful and helpful to them as they are to you.
Drama and the like doesn’t matter because the hierarchy changes when you leave school.
jackfright – lurve to you for hitting it right on the target! hope to see more of your answers on fluther :)
Highschool was over for me the second i graduated. I cant really say the same for most of my peers.
I’m a senior in high school right now. High school was over for me two years ago.
heh, yeah I never let highschool follow me pass my graduation party. Was glad to get out and moved on.
I hope high school ends! I graduated and I still feel like some people are stuck in that phase mentally and that sometimes maturity just doesn’t kick in for awhile. I think I’ve wised up a lot since high school, and I definitely felt in high school like I was done with it (I had a car, a credit card, and a job, so I thought I was a real-live AHDULT).
Where’s that cat-lady thread? For some people high school is the pinnacle of their success. They are popular, successful, and perceive themselves in a way that brings them fulfillment. Often those little fish go out in the big sea and get lost or even swallowed up by bigger fish. This prompts those people to cling to that long gone persona as a badge of success. High school is like any other chapter in the book of your life; limited in duration. You’re supposed to read it and move on to the next chapter. Some just don’t read very well.
For me I like to keep high school type drama out of my life… However, there are people in my life who have not grown up at all and tend to bring it out.
So for me, I like to think so…
For others, not so much.
It returns only at the reunions. I went to two and said, “Enough.” Lots of email chatter after the last big one; who had plastic surgery, who got really fat,etc. Someone complimented me on my hair color, thinking it was out of a bottle. It wasn’t.”
High school will be over for me when I graduate (well retire)in June 2011. Actually all these years of observing were a lot more amusingthan the 4 years I participated.
@galileogirl: Congrats on retiring. I agree – way more fun to observe than to participate.
I left a job two years ago precisely because everyone there acted as though they were still in high school with the cliques and the passive-aggressive “mean girl” behavior and so on, yet not one person there was younger than 25.
No, high school is never over. People recreate it wherever they go: work, clubs, politics, online communities. It is very difficult to resist, I guess. Or maybe when we’re in high school, the things we do are built into us genetically, and we are just repeating it over and over in life.
Well, alot of people tell you when you start high school “you better enjoy this. these are the best four years of your life.”, and what did I say? “I guess I might as well jump off a bridge right now, then.” Graduated in 05. Four years later.. 70% of my dreams seem to be about being back in high school. I’m realizing how right they were. If ignorance is bliss, high school was an ocean of skittles. if you don’t LIKE skittles, there’s something wrong with you
I am a college junior, and still have trouble believing I am already three years out of high school. I guess that counts as a semi-answer to the question. ^^
As someone pointed out, many of the people that matter in your life come from high school. The friends you keep from high school through college are the ones that will probably stay with you for life. I know it’s true for me.
Also agree with @Piper_Brianmind high school are actually great years in retrospect. I was told college were going to be the best four years, not HS. But it wasn’t really true. College is a whole other ball game. You turn into a responsible adult, in theory, and you learn to deal with basic “adult” stuff, like bills, fighting bureaucracy on a daily basis, living alone, doing your own dishes. One word: independence. It just turns out you sort of feel less free when “independent”, because you deal with so much more stuff that your parents took care of for you in HS.
On the other hand, growing out of high school also has its benefits. The whole thing about “finding yourself” certainly rings true. I am a completely different person now than when I graduated from hs. It does bring a certain peace of mind. “Maturity”, if you will. ;-)
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