Daily writing prompt

Describe something you learned in high school.

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I feel like the three years I spent in high school taught me absolutely nothing.

They were probably some of the worst years of my life. I was lonely, bored, apathetic, depressed and unpopular. I went from being the grade 9 class Valedictorian to being a nobody in grade 10. Just a face in a sea of faces.

When I look back and examine it now, I think possibly it might have gone down differently if my parents had said yes to any of my requests to join extra-curricular activities.

For years I had begged them to let me join the Air Cadets, but it was always a no. I wanted to join band as well, the saxophone had really appealed to me but that was also a resounding no. I probably would have played volleyball as well if someone had suggested, hey why don’t you join the volleyball team? But nope.

I think my high school experience was made worse because of the expectation of it I’d had, prior to going into it. Stupid expectations. If I’d only known then to expect nothing, it might not have felt like such a let down.

I’d had this image in my head of how it was going to be, probably based off of tv shows or movies. Football games, riding around in cool cars, skipping class to do fun terrible things. But none of that really happened.

Okay reading this back is kind of sad and depressing, geez, no wonder I didn’t have a good time.

It’s all good now though, it was a million years ago and not long after I graduated I was able to delve into really living life and having a good time.