High School
We all remember how demoralizing high school was. It is like being slowly whittled away until you are no longer an actual person, but a strange copy of several other people. You strive so hard to be one of the cool people, repeatedly falling short, but waking up the next day knowing that today is your day. You are going to make it.
My sister-in-law just started high school. Although high school is better than junior high, it is not much better.
To make things even better, jj has offered to follow her around school, wearing a helmet, holding a boom box on his shoulder, and yelling, “Katie likes guys!” While sounding more like a seal with larangitis, then an actual person. I found it incredibly funny when he would randomly yell this while we were with her this weekend. Katie would melt into the floor and try to disguise herself like her surroundings, like a chameleon.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Your comments, while very poetic, are very true. It is a time that nobody wants to ever revisit, but none of us wanted to skip. We are shaped and molded in ways that we wouldn’t be otherwise. Good luck to her. JJ is a funny older brother, and you know that Katie probably loved the attention anyways!
August 29th, 2006 at 7:30 am
I think that I could have survives w/o the high school experience. I was ready to get out before I ever got in. Beleive it or not, I had no friends, got kicked out of seminary, called the boys basketball coach an a-hole in an assembly….that was just my senior year though…I took me 2 years to work up enough fury and anger and resentment….some of which I’m still trying to overcome.