Real Girl In The City

I was watching a TV show the other day and one of the characters mentioned how if high school was your best years then there is something wrong.  I started to wonder was that true.  I mean for the most part most people loved high school.  It was fun, you got money from your parents or works some of the easiest jobs in the world, 3 months off a year, and you could be as popular as you were will to put in the effort to be.  For a lot of people it doesn’t get much better than this. But what if you were the player that made the touchdown that took your team to state or the cheerleader that was prom queen and had a ton of friends or had the lead in every play even without auditioning and dreams of life on Broadway; is it all downhill from there.  Let’s face it real life is a little more complicated than high school.  I know we all think that every drama in school is just the end of the world but if you blow out your knee during your first year of college football or your husband cheats on you and leaves you with two kids and no money then high school could look really great.  For some they won’t be as “whatever” as they were in high school ever again.  But what about the ones in the middle or even the ones at the bottom of the pole?  Is it any coincidence that some of your high school “nerds” go on to build fortune 500 companies or become the most popular in college and marry well.  Of course not.  For them high school probably wasn’t the best time of their lives.

Yet why does there have to be a best time and a worst?  Look I wouldn’t say that I was extremely popular (although I am finding that I was more popular than I thought) but I wasn’t picked on or ignored; however I see high school for what it was: 4 years of my life.  Some of the days and months there were better than others but some weren’t.  It was just life the same as it has been since.  There have been years that were great and years that I would rather have forgotten but they have all been part of life.  I like to think that what ever happened in high school or since has made me who I am today.  You can’t change one part without changing the whole and I kinda like me.  Although that can change from day to day too. 

So I guess the point is that high school was high school some will always see it as the best times of their lives and others won’t but if you are always looking back toward high school then you just might miss what really could be the best part of your life.  Like the song says, “The best is yet to come”.

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