I made aquaintences in highschool and was burned multiple times thanks to the caddyness that girls have in them. This was something I was not used to was nastey people who spread rumors... I always enjoy watching Easy A, a movie that is so true it makes it funnier everytime I watch it.
For those of you who haven't seen it, it is about one girl who heard a rumor regarding the fact that she had sex with another student. (By the way if you attempt to stop an incorrect rumour about yourself in highschool... no one believes you) The main character never stops this rumour and it gets to the point where everyone hates her in the school!
Successfully completing high-school a virgin and frankly could care less about this NOW..then it was not so cool. I had a similar rumour started in my final year of school. Luckily I was in a four credit co-op and the last half of the year I was working in a Long-Term Care facility which helped me make the honour roll for my final year! This was a true achievement to me as school was a regular struggle and being lucky enough to find my passion in high-school made me work twice as hard that final semester.
The rumour that made it's way around the school was that I was fooling around with my friends boyfriend. Wow, a big slap in the face...that still stays with me to this day and why I talk to only about two people still from highschool. My friends boyfriend and I shared the same spare together and we both loved ACDC, Jimmy Hendrix and other similar bands. He was an awesome drummer and skateboarder! He was hilarious and we had the best time being friends! The day the rumour started was when we walked to his house on our spare and he taught me how to play the drums.. that was an awesome day.. until the next day came and the rest of the year fell apart.
Luckily I maintained a friendship during highschool that helped me survive! Remember that girl in grade school who liked pink? Yup her! She made highschool so much fun for me. I had more fun on Friday nights eating bags of Reisens and Chips, watching hours of F.R.I.E.N.D.S and laughing sooo hard. Going out for coffees and talking for hours, going to movies and shopping. Harmless awesome fun! I'm so glad and blessed to have had such a good friend. Did we ever get invited to that awesome party where everyone got drunk and several went to hospital due to alcohol poisioning? No...we were never that cool! Our sad uncool reputation made us laugh at ourselves throughout highschool and not caring what others thought of us was the best way to get through.
We had a few classes together but not many. Grade 11 history was where we had our best times at school! We wrote notes to eachother... no wait not notes short stories that would fill both sides of the paper. We had an excellent system of passing pencil cases with the perfectly folded note inside. I still have to this day a note from her I've enjoyed re-reading this note several times over these last few years. Once higschool was over she moved away to University, this would prove to be very hard on me since the only person who truly knew and understood me was gone.
I was happy to get out of highschool and start college...I had a boyfriend who many thought was not for me at this time but we had a blast together! Seven months of laughs and companionship and I never regreted that.
All my friends were very similar and lived a similar lifestyle to me growing up. As I started to meet different guys, I would visit their homes with a very different lifestyle then I was used to. I enjoyed learning how each family functioned and the differences from my own.
One I met lived in a triplex basement apartment with his mom... he grew up with a harder lifestyle and learning all about it was exciting and fasinating to me. He was the first person to introduce me to psychic abilities and I was truly blown away! He also had a great goal of becoming a police officer and worked hard at college to do well and successfully graduated. However growing up in a difficult area and knowing people who have not always followed the law has made it difficult to be accepted to a force. In my opinion he would be a true asset to any police force with a wealth of knowledge and a terrific backbone! A very hard working individual.
His best friend lived on his own in a basement apartment which to me was a comfortable place to live and he also had a hard upbringing. I was intrigued and inspired by each of these people and the difficulties they encountered along the way.
On to my first year of college... well this was one of the most challenging years in my life and I will leave out several details. I had a strange relationship that consumed my life and I became obsessed with it. I must say during this year (which I rarely attended classes as I was in his) I learned a lot about what I want in a real relationship and what I truly never want. For that I thank him. He is now happily engaged and looks like he has found some balance in his own life and I'm so happy to see that!
The best thing that came out of that first year was meeting a new best friend. She deserves another post of her own!
Well, I think you were a polite, eager, and kind student - and a great person. It appears to me that you, and your life, have turned out just fine! (That kid with whom you're pictured in the first photo was/is pretty cool, too!)
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how a good family and good friends will help to shape a person's life for the better. (Some good teachers along the way will help, too!). Unfortunately, too many people in our world don't have these things...