This wasn’t quite what I had in mind when I said I was going back to high school to dominate athletically.

Sitting here on a Sunday night, dreading the school week.  Last week I had tons of tests and quizzes and was pretty worn out when the weekend rolled around.  Now the week is about to start again and the majority of my thoughts are negative; not enough sleep, run down, can’t even stay up to watch the football games, too much homework… pretty standard high schooler stuff.  On top of that, I realized I needed to put a post up and decided to take the lazy way out by finding a high school news story and just commenting on that.  But when I typed in “high school” to a Google news search my perspective on the week did change a bit.  Things, it appears, could certainly be worse:

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Special Needs Teacher Killed at Texas High School

NY students suspended over raw-meat hazing ritual

Felony charges in bus attack

Axe - Wielding Pupil Wounds Several In German School

Florida school officials won’t go to jail for praying

High School Drug Ring Shut Down, Police Say

Tony Danza shows high school students who’s boss

Missouri high school students arrested after $30000 theft

2nd arrest for teacher in alcohol, pot case

Student Stabbed to Death in Florida

Masked police chief sparks brief school lockdown

Cops arrest suspect after gunfire near Houston high school

Extra police near Fenger High School after beating death

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There’s about 100 more of these, and that’s just a sampling of the first page of one day of high school news.  As much as I hate to admit it, I have it about as good as possible.  Yet while these awful occurrences are pretty much inconceivable at Trinity, within a five mile radius there are multiple high schools that this kind of stuff happens in all the time.

This train of thought, and post, would have seemed very trite to me the first time I was in high school.  If someone tried to give me the whole “Don’t take how good you have it for granted” spiel would have been annoying to me.  That is if I paid attention to what they were saying at all.  But somewhere along the way that stuff starts to click in your head.  Maybe it’s when you actually get exposed to some of the kinds of people that populate the Google news stories you develop a different perspective on it but there certainly are worse things in the world than my complaints and thank goodness I’m in high school where I am. 

Complaining to resume as normal tomorrow….

When I see people from high school who are not taking care of themselves and looking prematurely old and weird it makes me feel like they’re betraying some kind of bond or something. Like they’re doing something unfair to me by reminding me of how old I am. Where as when I see someone who looks the same, it makes me like them more, as if we’re on the same team.

The same goes for anyone from high school who has a totally different personality and acts like they’re a serious adult…all it does is depress meI don’t even want to think about how depressed I make people when they see me. Although, to be fair, maybe I depress them with the fact that I still act like I’m in High School, which I am, so in that sense I guess they only have themselves to blame for their depression. Have I mentioned I’m deliriously tired again?

The girl in this video might be taking the “not getting prematurely old” thing a little far though…