I’m sure if I were seven years old right now I would explain the above as my being almost 7 and a half. I’m still amazed at how much I wanted to be older when I was a kid. I suppose with the way the world is you can’t really blame kids for wanting to be older. You can’t see certain movies until you get older. You can’t drink certain things until you get older. You can’t go into certain places until you get older. Even your parents will say things around you and when you ask them to explain it they always say, “You won’t understand until you are older.”
It really is unfair that we don’t really get to enjoy our youth too much. If you have older brothers and sisters they alone can make your young life a living hell. The only reason why this hell that they deliver upon to you is a good thing because it will help prepare you for the bullshit group dynamics that come in to play once you get into middle school which in turn prepares you for high school. They don’t really prepare you for how to handle these situations but they do help to teach you that life is pain, so deal with it.
I never understood the whole socio-political structure in high school. Why anyone would want to be caught up in some huge popularity contest for four years of their life is beyond me. Granted, I wasn’t the most liked kid in school but I had very few enemies and just about everyone talked to me. I saw what happened to some other kids though and I tell you that those people didn’t deserve even 1% of the grief that they were given.
One other funny little thing that I would like to reflect upon is that I think I may have tapped in to why the kids that were picked on in high school tend to be the ones that become more successful. Try and stay with me on this one because it may be far fetched and I may just be a raving lunatic, you’ll have to decide for yourself.
First I have noticed that most of the kids that were the most popular in high school tend not to really go anywhere in life because for them high school was the pinnacle of their life and they can never find that type of popularity again. Maybe it comes from them having things come to them so easily. I’m not sure, but most that I have run into in my adult life just haven’t seemed to have done much or seem just downright miserable.
The picked on kids however usually seem to have done something with themselves. I tend to think this happens because they either have something to prove or they are just used to working harder to get things out of life. Constantly being picked on or miserable in school I am sure helps build some type of character for those that survive it.
On second thought I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about. Move along, nothing to see here.
-WW