fifeboy fifeboy:
Unless I've got it all wrong, you grew up in an atmosphere that worked on responsibility. The boys of this school appear to have grown up in an atmosphere of privilege.
At my school the problem was the kids who enjoyed the privilege of being popular.
The faculty and administration could always be counted on to give them a pass especially when the popular kids tortured a weird, different, or gay kid.
It was socially acceptable to punish the oddballs for being odd.
The justice in life for me was going to reunions over the years and seeing
The God Squad having to deal with the unpleasant realities that 1) the best four years of their lives were behind them and 2) no one in the real world gives a fuck how popular you were or were not in high school.
At my 35th reunion last year I had the unsettling experience of being ranked as one of the more successful of our classmates, right behind our very own dotcom billionaire.
The popular kids have failed marriages, some run-ins with the law, failed businesses, and etc.
In this respect I suppose it was a blessing that high school was a shit experience for me because every year since then has been better than the year before.
I've spent thirty six years looking forward to the best years of my life while
The God Squad is stuck looking back to their glory days to make themselves feel like they matter.
And what I wrote before this is about what I tell every bullied kid I ever meet.
The best years are ahead of you.
