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If You Peaked in High School, You Peaked in Life
4 troubling signs of someone who peaked in high school.
Would you ever go to a high school reunion?
The answer for me is hell no. Why? Because high school was a living nightmare for me. I’ve had medical scares with the nurse, snarky verbal fights with teachers, and racist white kids at every locker bay. But nothing comes close to the insufferable people that peaked.
Peaking in high school is a sure-fire sign that your life is going downhill from there. Your life is over after four years. When you peak in high school, you peak in life.
To prevent this, here are four troubling signs of someone who peaked in high school — and in life.
They’re too group-oriented
High school cliques are essential. Every student is still finding themselves. Most are insecure so they run to a group for guidance. This leads to a headstrong clique with unbreakable morals and values that need to be followed at all times. When I strayed away from the moral code of my band clique (moral code: be racist), I was kicked out immediately.
People who peak in high school are the leaders of these cliques.
They thrive in them. They align with the moral code of the clique so much that it’s almost disgusting. However, their perfect alignment is what helps them garner the most attention and power within the group. If you’re the living embodiment of a clique, you become the most respected within it.
A group-oriented mindset is good to have in some cases, but it’s used as a gas pump for validation in most cases. When that pump is gone, what do these people have left? Not much.
They keep coming back to school
A couple of weeks before my graduation, I told my band teachers straight-up, “I’m never coming back here.”
The shock on their faces was hysterical. They almost got offended I said that, but it’s true. Never been back since.
It kills me when I go on Instagram and see kids coming back to high school after they graduated. It doesn’t make sense. High school was fun and all, but I’m too busy chasing my dreams…
