High School is so Overrated

1. Sometimes I wonder if my parents are secretly pissed they paid for a Catholic school education when I now consider myself anything but Catholic. Sorry mom and dad...if it's any consolation, I do feel it was a fairly good education that I received.

2. Why is it that when we're in high school we believe the present is all that exist? In reality, (AKA in retrospect) one can only appreciate how insignificant high school actually is once he or she is at least 5 years post high school graduation.

3. While in high school, one can only see through "popularity and the opinion of others" rose colored glasses. Why is it, those same glasses shatter (if not explode) 5 to 10 years post graduation?

4. With no disrespect to my fellow graduates, I chose not to attend my 10 year high school reunion for nothing out of sheer protest.

5. I wish I could go back in time and tell my high school self what I now know in this day and age. What a difference it would make...

6. Looking back, I wish I'd been more outspoken and more courageous for fighting for what I believed in while in high school without fear of rejection or retribution.

7. I find it ironic that those who I considered my close friends while in high school are nothing more now than mere acquaintances (alas, this is a sad observation).

8. Though my parents often preached it, I never truly believed (until now) that high school is nothing more than a mere (AKA miniscule) phase in a person's life. In actuality, there is a much larger scheme/theme in each of our lives. Wow...who knew our own parents were so smart?

9. I am only a shadow of my former high school self and thank God for that everyday.

10. If given the chance I would never elect to go back to my teen years. I am much more confident, self-assurred, and informed now than I ever was as a teenager.

11. If I were able to go back in time (with the knowledge I know possess) I probably would have had a different set of best friends (only because of my opinions and ideas not because my former best friends were even remotely bad people, etc.).

12. I am grateful everyday for all of the horrible things I experienced in high school- naturally they were terrible but I learned more from those situations than from my more favorable experiences.

13. I am extremely grateful (with no disrepect to those who still reside there) that I no longer live in the small-minded town I was reared in.