High School Memories

[knowsbleed]

Sounds pretty peaceful if you ask me...

and sad.

 

[Tempest19]

Being somewhat of a reclusive anti-social lone wolf myself, it's not that bad in my opinion. It may seem that way to outsiders. But, you find a way to get yourself by. It's freeing sometimes. Kind of like how Scully found Mulder's life style to be sad and he found it to be normal.

 

[PyroChamber]

Not to mention the fact that I was the quiet guy in classes, and went to high school during Columbine. After that, everyone looked at me wondering if I was gonna do something next.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Nah yo, I like to be surrounded by a horde of friends

 

[Tempest19]

Wow. You were there during Columbine? Sorry for what happened man. Hope you managed to find a way to get past it.

 

[Speedball]

Nah yo, I like to be surrounded by a horde of friends

So do I...It's making them and keeping them that's the problem...

 

[PyroChamber]

So do I...It's making them and keeping them that's the problem...

Funny thing about high school, from what I've seen, most of the friends you had in high school that you thought you'd always have; after you graduate you won't see hardly any of them again.

 

[Tempest19]

Didn't mean to sound like I was completely anti-social. I love being around my friends. Have a couple of close friends from back home and acquaintances at college. Not a lot of friends, just some, but they've become like family. I've known one since we were born and another since we were five (as I said, we're as tight as Harry Osborn and Peter Parker, practically brothers). Which I guess is better than having many friends. Though, I do try to make friends the shy factor holds me back a lot.

I've learned the ways of the lonewolf as well though and at times it can be just as good. But, there are times that you just need to go back where your friends and family are to be home. And I know that sounds corny as hell. Sue me.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Funny thing about high school, from what I've seen, most of the friends you had in high school that you thought you'd always have; after you graduate you won't see hardly any of them again.

Not if you live in Delaware. I have grade school friends that I still hang out with. Not cuz I'm so popular, but this place is so damn small lol.

 

[knowsbleed]

Funny thing about high school, from what I've seen, most of the friends you had in high school that you thought you'd always have; after you graduate you won't see hardly any of them again.

High school? Hell, I barely can keep up with the friends I made last year... let alone high school or college. I'm an out of sight out of mind type guy.

 

[Rando Aces]

so anyways...

 

[Tempest19]

One image says a thousand words about high school:

"High School is prison without the bars."

 

[knowsbleed]

Hahaha... not really.

 

[Tempest19]

As in you agree or disagree?

 

[knowsbleed]

I disagree. As with any situation in life... its what you make of it. You control your life... high school can be a prison if you make it so... or it can be a tool to further your life experience.

 

[Tempest19]

High School isn't what you make of it. It's what it makes of you. It turned my slightly off edge teenager (8th grade) into the "disturbed" teenager as the media likes to label us.

How did I do this? Simple. I had a speech impediment beyond my control and I liked writing screenplays. In other words I became the outcast because nobody accepted me for who I was. Please explain to me how I made that. I didn't ask for a speech problem. I didn't ask for people to be ass holes. Same goes for others with ****ty high school experiences, it's not in our control. They place you somewhere, label you, and you're stuck for your four years of hell. For things that are completely out of your control.

Right now, I'm currently worrying over the well-being of a neighbor's kid who I've known for a long time. Nicest kid in the world, but he has turrets. Just hoping he doesn't go through a terrible four years like I, and some on here, have due to things most of us don't have in our control. Because if they see something, they pick it apart until you're either in the 6 o' clock news or under the ground.

Personally relate my experiences most to Jamie Bell's character in 'Chumscrubber.' The "psycho" outcast with only a couple of close friends and a lot of the time a lone wolf. Just to try to give some clarification as to where I'm coming from.

 

[knowsbleed]

Blame your parents. They should have provided better for you by either placing you in a better school or homeschooling you.

And you can't blame the situation. That's self defeat... adapt and overcome man. If you think that high school is the hardest thing you'll have to go through in your life then you are in for rough, rough ride.

 

[Tempest19]

Blame my parents for students making fun of me? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. No offense. Here's a clue, teach STUDENTS to be more civil and accepting of others. I was in one of the top schools of the area.

And how to do outcasts adapt? They don't. They survive. While others either go on rampages or commit suicide. So you've got two options try to survive or body bag. Luckily, I survived.

Outcasts do adapt. They grow quieter, shier, angrier, more internal. A time bomb kinda that could lead to crime or suicide, varying degrees to get to that point, but it's paved and started at the same road. Once you leave, the shell breaks and you're free to escape the hallowed halls of hell.

Once you enter the real world which starts in college. They don't throw things at you, trip you, call you names for having a speech impediment and not being like everybody else. Yeah, sure it's rough, but at least you're finally dealing with a civilized society. How the hell it magically shifts over, I have no idea. It's remarkable though seeing the shift, from Freshman to Jr. year they treat like a pile of **** and then Sr. year they stop and act as though nothing happened. Felt like I entered the twilight zone when that happened, to tell you the truth- is there some sr. year switch or something that goes on and off? No clue. Just weird phenomena that is easily observable.

 

[knowsbleed]

I have news for you... college isn't the real world.

Here's some more news... if your parents knew about your situation and really wanted to do something about it then they could have. It is their responsibility for your well being. So yes, blame them. Kids make fun of other kids who are different... it has ALWAYS been like that. Nothing has changed. It's human nature. If you are still different... people still make fun of you... just not to your face. Its the truth.

You're making high school out to be some life or death type scenario because of your situation... I don't buy into it. I've been there done that in a high school where we had metal detectors and gang fights daily. Someone I knew very closely actually got shot at my graduation... so sorry if I don't cry a river for you. If you are truly strong at heart and mind, then you will find a way to persevere in any situation.

 

[Phallic]

I have 2 more months to go until I'm out of high school.

Quite frankly, I'm sick of all the immaturity that runs rampant in my school. I've had so many stupid freshman try to steal stuff out of my backpack that it has become ridiculous.

I hope college is better.

 

[Tempest19]

College is better. Don't have to worry about a thing dude. The stealing doesn't stop, just like it doesn't stop in the real world. But the jerks are no longer around though.

And Nosebleed, taken from your pov I can tell that you OBVIOUSLY were not a school 'outcast'/'alien'/'steven king kid'/'the kid whose name nobody knows'/'the disturbed teen.' So count yourself lucky dude.

College IS the start of the real world. The civilized world. Once you graduate you go on to the actual real world of managing careers. High School is not the real world, if it was you'd see people throwing paper at everyone, name calling every hour of the day, tripping people, fights breaking out everywhere, I don't see that- do you?

Also seems your seem paranoid in saying people remain that way inside. There's a 'light switch' which is easily observable from my vantage point because those who were once mean to me started being nice to me in senior year. Not because they thought I was psycho or that something had changed. Just changed out of the blue. Sr. year seems to have the effect on others I know as well.

An as all 'outcasts' can tell you, this is nothing you go to your parents about. "Mom, Dad, I was made fun of and tormented today." No, kids don't say that. They hide it. They hide, why do you think the nurse's office and certain spots of school are flowing? They're prime hiding spots dude. You go there to survive. Learn the way. Any outcast can tell you all that I have.

So, as I said, consider yourself lucky and this is a point of view that obviously you don't share because you're experiences were luckily different. And I've heard what you stated in and out before from others who didn't go through teenage alienation.

 

[Zumi]

Tempest- College = the real world? *dies laughing* Ahem...

Well seeing as middle school was my hell I entered high school extremely quiet and shy...
Though since it was a new school there was pretty much no cliches/rigid groups/ect. so that wasn't too bad.

9th grade
Made two new good friends and a few lesser. Did the whole 'experimenting' with my sexuality thing, by the end of the year I realised I was in fact gay.
My Earth Science class was a blast as I shared it with a guy I knew from middle school, the only guy I ever went out with, and we did nothing the whole year yet convinced the teacher we did everything getting us both 'A's. We did such a good job that in a poem about the class she recited at the end of the year she called us two the intellectuals of the group. That was also the class that the guy from middle school decided to handcuff this other guy to a chair in the back of the room. Twas amusing.

10th grade
Made more friends and became friends with the future valedictorian(tall smexy filipino girl) and a few others. Not many memories really stand out. Think that was the year I got my first girlfriend.

11th grade
Every guy I knew asked me out. I informed those who didn't know of my sexuality and a couple of the girls then asked me out. Started the 'on again/off again' relationship with this one girl that lasted throughout the rest of high school. Got into theater. At the end of the year the person we knew as 'the Devil' stood on the tables in the back court and recited verses from the Satanic Bible. The groups 'God' recited from the Bible. Someone else got into it and wiped out the Koran. Lmao. Downpoint: A guy I knew died(hit by a truck)

12th grade
Twas fantasmic. Gained a weird sort of following from the younger classes. I was essentially the 'popular girl' of the outcast/goth/punk/anime/unclassified group(s).

 

[Tempest19]

Correction on the statement which both of you obviously missed.

College is the beginning of the real world. Meaning no high school bull ****. The real world really begins once you leave college due to careers and managing one's life, as I already mentioned. But, I meant SOCIALLY college is the beginning of the real world, not RESPONSIBILITY wise. There's a difference.

Unless you believe that the real world consists of people throwing paper at each other, constant ridicule and name calling, "playground" fights, and rigid cliches. Which would sum up High School. To me, yeah College is the beginning of the social real world because all of the childness and immaturity that fills high school starts to disappear around senior year and is wiped out in college completely.

 

[WorthyStevens]

So... yeah... High school was fun. Wish I were back there.

 

[knowsbleed]

Correction on the statement which both of you obviously missed.

College is the beginning of the real world. Meaning no high school bull ****. The real world really begins once you leave college due to careers and managing one's life, as I already mentioned. But, I meant SOCIALLY college is the beginning of the real world, not RESPONSIBILITY wise. There's a difference.

Unless you believe that the real world consists of people throwing paper at each other, constant ridicule and name calling, "playground" fights, and rigid cliches.

You're still in college, no? So how do you know what the "real world" is like afterwards? I know you're having a blast... but let's be real and let's speak of what we know... not what we think we know.