Anyone else experienced this?
My high school was a typical playground whereby the only way up the macho hierarchy was to make yourself look 'cool' by bulling. Behaving like this was your 'ticket to popularity'. Obviously wasn't really for me. It wasn't until I got to university that I realised "interacting with peers didn't have to be that way".
I don't really relate to my friends from high school anymore though, they are still preoccupied with getting drunk, doing drugs and travelling. None of that ever really appealed to me.
I don't relate to my siblings either. They're all in their late 30's, highly successful, and have their own agendas.
Now I see immigrants who can barley speak English whom are extremely rude and less qualified than me coming to the town I have lived in for 25 years and getting the jobs I want.
I see the most arrogant, stupid, and generally repugnant individuals from school married to high quality respectable women, with children I might add.
Why? Because they have 'confidence'. The thing I had sucked out of me during my adolescence.
Whenever I hear that word, it sounds like fingernails down a blackboard.
Thanks for reading my terrible story. Feel free to discuss.
Gavin.
My high school was a typical playground whereby the only way up the macho hierarchy was to make yourself look 'cool' by bulling. Behaving like this was your 'ticket to popularity'. Obviously wasn't really for me. It wasn't until I got to university that I realised "interacting with peers didn't have to be that way".
I don't really relate to my friends from high school anymore though, they are still preoccupied with getting drunk, doing drugs and travelling. None of that ever really appealed to me.
I don't relate to my siblings either. They're all in their late 30's, highly successful, and have their own agendas.
Now I see immigrants who can barley speak English whom are extremely rude and less qualified than me coming to the town I have lived in for 25 years and getting the jobs I want.
I see the most arrogant, stupid, and generally repugnant individuals from school married to high quality respectable women, with children I might add.
Why? Because they have 'confidence'. The thing I had sucked out of me during my adolescence.
Whenever I hear that word, it sounds like fingernails down a blackboard.
Thanks for reading my terrible story. Feel free to discuss.
Gavin.