Thinking Back to High School?

Jules

Jules

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Thinking way, way back to high school, do you remember the most popular guys or gals in your school. You know, the cool kids.

Or maybe they weren’t cool; they were just bullies who lead the pack.

Have you ever found out how their life turned out?
 
Yes, I remember the most popular kids and I was considered one but I liked a lot of the not so popular kids that were nice and fun to be around. There were some students that got in trouble with smoking, drinking and not caring about school. Some were in trouble with the law. I am not sure how they turned out after school but I guess some did well.

Some of the students were really smart and did well after college becoming lawyers, doctors and other professionals. However, I was not one of them.
 
I really didn't mesh with the personalities of the most popular bunch. First being the way they laughed at
others for their clothes, hair, acne, etc. I had a couple of the girls I talked to on occasion, mostly when the
newest guy broke up with them and they didn't want it known yet but had to cry.
The top surfer, won many contests and was really cute...too cute and knew it, died a year after he graduated in
a car accident.
I remember some names due to a reunion msg I got on FB. I had no idea any one remembered me.
I was pretty low keyed and shy. I was known as the "Stray Collector" most all my besties were just ordinary
and I liked the no-games mentality of those types.
 
I was a jock at 6’4”. I was an average basketball player, but more of a better than average baseball player. I hung with the cool crowd, who were mostly jocks, except for the girls. When we traveled to away basketball games the cheerleaders traveled on the same bus with us. The girls had to sit in the back and the team upfront. The coaches sat between the guys and the girls. We had fun.
 
There were only 35 of us in my High-school class and most of that number had been together since first grade so my class felt more like a large family. I was an outsider, who transferred in from an even smaller school my Sophomore year. I was elected Junior class President so I guess I was accepted pretty well.
 
My high school was too small, 45 in my graduating class, to have different groups/cliques. I dated and married the prettiest cheerleader, who also was head of the Honor Society. The starting backfield on the football team (I was the QB), along with one other player, were also the starting 5 on the basketball team, and we were all on the track team. At last count, 17 classmates have passed away. Some never left Southern Ohio, a few traveled the world. Some of us went to college, most didn't, but I like to think we all led the best lives we could.
 
Jules said:
Thinking way, way back to high school, do you remember the most popular guys or gals in your school. You know, the cool kids.

Or maybe they weren’t cool; they were just bullies who lead the pack.

Have you ever found out how their life turned out?
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We had some popular screamers, girls. Only the first 3 years when it was combined. Oh that poor guy who gave Geography. He couldn't stand em. He always turned red and then kicked em out. Later it turned out he was really chill if you didn't ruin his lesson lol. After that they went to the easier school and the class was just full with a bunch of shy interested kids who wanted to learn. Lol once the physics teacher said: PLEASE!!! SAY SOMETHING!!!! We just sat and listened lol.
No idea how they're doing. The only ones I kept in contact with were 4 other unpopular girls I always hung out with.
 
I was sort of middle of the road - not on the popular list, not on the bad list, and didn't try to get on any list.

When I look back on those times, not many memories come to mind - good or bad. I just wanted to get school over and done with, be out, and have my own apartment.

There were class reunions every year, and I got invitations for awhile but they stopped after about 5 years, since I never attended any of them.
 
I was a nerd at both studying and music. Hated high school and wish nothing good for many of the supposedly 'cool' kids who looked down on people like myself. Never went to reunion. Hate sports due to not being able to play anything and got looked down because of it.
Meanwhile, retired at 57, will celebrate 50 years of marriage, and get to travel overseas as much as we like and are financially independent.
So, it's that old cliche about living well is the best revenge.
 
Other than something I see in the local newspaper, I haven’t kept in touch with anyone.

One of the nicest guys went on to become very successful in his careers. He travelled the world, had a long marriage and kids. It was a glowing obituary. It sounded like he stayed like the same nice guy I knew from school.

Another guy was average and nice. Not a scholar. Not being critical, neither was I. He became the editor of the paper.

The gal who was top of her class didn’t want to leave town. She turned down scholarships. I don’t know where she ended up.
 
I hung with and was a proud gearhead. We weren't popular in school with the jocks and we didn't give a :poop:.
I chuckle now at these car meets where the used to be popular guy's think buying a shiny "mona lisa" car will make them fit in with the remaining gearheads. Yet they can't answer a simple mechanical question when asked. I laugh when the wife (who knows almost as much as me about cars) goes up to one of the posers and says something like... "nice car, sounds sweet, whats the cam lift and duration or the cfm of the carb?

Simple pleasures for me I guess.
 
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