I’m not sure how much of a bitch this is but I just find it funny how most of the popular kids in Junior High and High School actually amounted to nothing once done High School. I bumped into way too many from My High School that have no ambition nor did they end up as anything. 2 guys I just recently bumped into were like part of the popular gang and what have you, after years and years of partying and decided college isn’t for them (failing), they took the next best thing that required no education.
I’d say around 75 % of the popular high school generation looked awesome then, yet mysteriously gained the pounds and don’t look as good as they used to!
If this is the outcome of such a chain, why does it exist?!
I wasn’t part of the popular crowd, nor the nerds really, had some good friends that just separated with time, but i never understood this whole popularity thing.
I went to school originally in the middle east and we never had any of that.
I do remember once school in particular though. It never had this whole popularity thing until guess who showed up to class, riiigghhttt.. some north american and australian students!!!
The most I love is the weight gain and ugliness 🙂
—Pay Back’s a Bitch Skanks!
This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2009.
It’s called “Karma”
Ah, OP, I hope you realize that THIS is the joy of the 10- and 20-year high school reunion.
I know you didn’t go to school here, but take note that what you are describing is a very revealing aspect of the social structure and the way life goes here in North America.
After high school, you get to see what the TRULY cool and interesting people (many of them geeks or misfits back then) are doing with there lives today, now that they have the freedom to make their own choices. And I am always pleasantly surprised at what some people do when they start being who they “really” are as they become adults.
Some people brush off reunions thinking they are going to be some cheesy re-play of old high school bullshit. No! The real value in going is re-connecting with (or really meeting for the first time) the people who have done really amazing things. Even some of the jerks and assholes grow up and turn into decent people. I have seen this happen more than once.
Oh yeah, and there are few things in life more satisfying than running into some of the bullies and skanks and genuine losers, and checking in with how THEY are doing after all this time . . . I can’t think of a form of revenge much sweeter . . .
I hope that everyone who went to high school here in Canada can ENJOY observing this turn of events. It only gets better.
Life is too short to have to wait for a high school reunion, to hopefully see someone you hated, envied, liked or disliked be in what you consider a position lower on the so called social ladder than your own.
Grow up .
I was a painfully shy little nerd who got bullied by this gang of the ‘cool’ girls all through junior high – three of those losers put on about 100 pounds each and married/divorced young, never outgrowing that pretty girl syndrome except for one – the worst cunt I ever had to deal with – this girl absolutely shredded whatever speck of self-confidence I had back then – she become a very compassionate pallative care nurse – go figure – although I must admit I like this kind of irony.
Hi More,
Well of course you can’t revolve you’re whole life around waiting for reunions, etc. . . . but it is THE ONE THING I wish people in high school could grasp. And it doesn’t really hit home until you pass one of those big milestones, often in a year with a zero in it.
If you’re in high school and you are dealing with this shit take heart. Believe me: all those people who are making your life Hell with either A) grow up and become decent people or B) will “peak” in high school and have nowhere to go but down, down, down.
And that’s what I want the OP, and anyone else on here, to enjoy for the sweet, delicious revenge that it is.
At my last reunion there was a special table reserved JUST for all the bitchy bitter ugly skanky girls, who I must say looked far less, um, “appealling” than they did back then.
It was truly eye-opening, and the point of my original comment was just an example, more that I really, really, really wish I could have known about all this back when I was going through it. I probably wouldn’t have believed anyone had they told me this . . . but I just thought I’d though it out there anyway in case someone needed to hear it.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Hey Ruby
I’m one of those people you may have seen who really didn’t give a fuck. I didn’t care if I fit in. I had my interests, I worked nights & weekends starting in JR high & all through high school & I had school work & the rest of my time was playing on my dirt bike, with like minded people. Never made it into the ‘in crowd’ at school actually I thought they were all momma’s & daddy’s boys & girls who had everything given to them…so they were certainly not worth envy or anything else .
What they considered important, clothes. looks , who broke up with or who screwed who etc. was well juvenile.
Being unafraid, & never causing trouble, but never backing down, meant most left me alone.
I’ve missed every high school reunion & have never felt a loss.
So have a great week end & remember in another 100 years all of that is going to be worth…what ?
For me, I think all the antics that went on will be as important as it was then, & ( IMO ) still worth absolutely nothing 😉
Why do you care so much about their lives now? They probably don’t give a shit about yours, no matter how successful you are and they aren’t. It seems to me that you’re living in the past.
It’s funny how people turn like out like that. However, isn’t it just as bad if you turn out to be a dick to these people. There’s something to be said for being the better person.
Mind Snap— For fuck sakes, Karma does not happen over your lifetime. If you’re going to use a term, use it properly!
I don’t feel a need to measure myself against people from my school days, some of whom I barely remember. The ones who mattered then are still my friends now. I am happy with my life.
Wait till you get to my age – school is in the crawlspace of your mind.
Actually, sadly enough, it is sometimes the bullies and popular ones who end up being the most successful in life. Bullies and popular people tend to have a lot of confidence, which is at least partly what it takes to succeed in the business world. This is all very simplified and general I know, but I don’t feel like explaining it further. Besides, you know what I mean.