You remember High School, I do.  I remember the grind, no not the school work but the constant need to find favor or acceptance of your peers...  Which is something I never quite achieved, I have always felt like an outcast.  But boy do I remember in High School thinking "I wish so and so liked me."  or "I wish, I would get asked to a party."   Only to find out after High School that none of that stuff ever mattered, hell out of all the "Friends" or "acquaintances"  I did have, I am lucky if I had any contact with them after school...  I can think of only three and I in fact, come to think of it, with exception to one of them, I only became friends with them after High School was done, we barely even knew of eachother in school or we hung out in other circles.

I got to thinking about this as I now have two sons in High School and I now hear them going through some simular situations.  Lucky for them they are having a better go of it.  But now I am imparting on them the knowledge and experience gained...  And as any parent can testify the total lack of buy in for them is astounding, as if you were born yesterday and could never understand what they are going through...  It is honestly quite funny.  I also got to thinking about this as I was sitting at lunch today (I work in corporate america) and not for the first time but I was noticing how some people have never left High School, you notice this in the cliques and sometime catty attitudes.  Still somewhere I still feel like I do not belong.  The only difference now is I have responsibilities, a wife, kids and no time to care for the crap anymore.