If you know me, I watch quite a lot of television. Most of them are about teenager's lives, gossip girl, one tree hill, the O.C., gilmore girls, smallville,veronica mars pretty little liars, glee and what not. Although I did not come from another planet (Krypton) I watched those thinking I can some day relate to those (in high school). Yet today's the last day of high school and I haven't really experienced much. Sure I've had crushes, drank a little, spoken to the cops and what not but not to the extremes in those shows.
Shootings, hooking up, getting into fights,going to jail, having sex all the time (maybe with more than one person), all the relationship drama or love triangles, no experiences with the same gendered sex, or having those crazy kegger/drinking parties, no road trips to mexico, getting totally wasted/overdosing, no talking to psychiatrist no pregnancy scares (tbh most of my friends haven't gone to first base,let alone having a baby), no long lost brother/sister showing up.
Are the things in the television show dougall boosted or do these things actually happen? I guess these things do happen, I just didn't hang out with that crowd (playing Never have I ever and discovered that some of those things mentioned above actually happen and hearing through the grape vines). I mean for most of my high school life I went to school and came home, I only went out very little and my mom didn't even let me sleep over at places, what made me think that the above would have happened. So what determines what a person does in high school, was it my parents, my age, my maturity, my friends? So having not experienced those things, I feel like my high school is more of a waste than anything I mean I have no cool stories to tell when I go to university, or if I ever play Never have I ever, well I guess I won't be drinking.
Then I think of the other kids of my school, kids who probably never drank at all or even dealt with anyone and barely went out, and wonder that must have been a boring 4 years.
I think I would really encourage my sister to live those four years of high school to the fullest and have fun but while still doing good in school and not totally ruining their life for their future.
To conclude this all I guess I didn't really have the "high school experience" and my high school life has actually been quite boring but I guess I have loads of other memories not necessarily possible if not done sober. So is not having the "high school experience" a good or bad thing?
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