>>High school is really fucking annoying.

“Your future depends on how you act now” says every college advisor.

—Your telling me that my future depends on how I act right now? in high school? Just think about this for a second — would you let a teenager make a life decision for you? No, no you would not and there is a reason for that. We have just been given a taste of freedom and responsibility. We have absolutely no idea what that entails except we have more freedom right now then we have ever had before. Some kids take high school the way adults want us to, buckle down do your work get good grades and go to a good school—nothing wrong with that, but that mentality just doesn't exist in the majority of high schoolers.

I really enjoy my school but I do not like high school for what it can do to people. When you break down the types of people in my school, you find people who are just so different from each other. Here is my observation of people in my school:

Very smart but couldn't talk to the other gender or participant in a sport if they wanted to. A natural born athlete, excels at any and every sport but falls on their face when it comes to anything academic (also no social problems). And now the mix: The very smart kid who is very athletic and excels in academics, sports and has a good social life (aka the perfect child). Also you can’t forget the kids that seem lost all through high school. The ones who get involved in drugs and can’t seem to focus on school.

So now looking back on these 4 types of people I have given you (You don’t have to agree with me here because I totally understand that this is very vague and generalized view) try and think of one person for each of those descriptions. I hope you have those 4 people. Now who do you think will be the most successful in life? (but what defines success, right?)

This is a sad realization to me because there are some kids who are just born with these amazing attributes that allow them to do whatever they put there mind to and then there are the kids who couldn't read a book if they wanted to, they would just rather spend the day getting high. But if thats truly all you want to do in life then all power to you. But a lot of the time that is a common outcome but not the outcome you wanted.

So, I have no idea where this post was supposed to go or is going but I just had to write it out because I see kids getting accepting to Harvard with minimal high school effort and kids getting declined from schools where they worked really hard their entire high school career. Its a hard fact to understand that some kids are just born with better genes or whatever the fuck causes them to be so intelligent or gifted.