A Short Trip

I took a trip down memory lane today and it was a short one. I was remembering high school and because I just graduated in June it didn't take me long to conjure up that particular part of my past. I saw and heard a lot of things in those 4 years that were just stupid. It's amazing the things teenagers do to eachother and themselves. They're like land mines; one wrong move around them they explode. Bump into a Senior in the Hallway and see what happens and trust me it isn't pretty. Look at them the wrong way and pick a fight, take a chair in the lunchroom and start a war, stand up for yourself and become a bullseye. I never understood teenagers which is strange because I am one. Granted I'm not the average bear either. I would look at the things that were happening around me and think, this is all so incredibly stupid, yet they all think it's so important. Things like; who's going out with who, who's having the best party, who got drunk that past weekend. There are kids that believe high school is life and therefore the will never have real one. The kids that think popularity and who they hang out with is greater than all else will peak in high school and crash in the later years, the important years. 40 year old men that still wear their letterman jackets were these types of kids (and we all want to be like them). I spent 4 years of my life surrounded by people I just didn't get and because of this they didn't get me. I think like an adult, I have since forever and I just don't know any other way to be. So I will be no other way. It would be interesting if later in life I discover that I am living in reverse and when I turn 30 all of the sudden become the equivilant to a drunken prom date. I doubt it but it would be interesting I can't deny that.