I think we had more room to mess up when I was in high school. The pressure to succeed is much more intense, acceptance into college is more competitive and any misstep can be captured and broadcast around the world in an instant. Ugh. Double ugh. Infinity ugh.
Facebook. I like it as an adult, but it hangs over teens heads with an idea of "will someone show that picture on FB?" It doesn't even have to be of something awful, just embarrassing. Which is almost everything as a teen.
I did not have a good high school experience. My sister died of cancer and there was tremendous peer pressure
ReplyDeleteI think we had more room to mess up when I was in high school. The pressure to succeed is much more intense, acceptance into college is more competitive and any misstep can be captured and broadcast around the world in an instant. Ugh. Double ugh. Infinity ugh.
ReplyDeleteFacebook. I like it as an adult, but it hangs over teens heads with an idea of "will someone show that picture on FB?" It doesn't even have to be of something awful, just embarrassing. Which is almost everything as a teen.
ReplyDeleteI graduated in '83 and things were so much more simple back then. Or, at least they seemed like it at the time. I'm just glad it's in the past.
ReplyDeleteI was on our school's "B list"--the biggest bitches in our school. Of course, our response was to laugh and rename ourselves "The Queen B's."
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