Rewind Seven Years - To High School!

All of the recent high school graduations have made me sit back and reminisce a little.
{I can't believe it's been SEVEN whole years!}

 High School is four years in a persons life - I don't agree with the common perception that they are the "best years of your life" -  I think they are just the beginning!

Amongst the number of things I learned in high school, perhaps the greatest lesson I took from High School, was one that I didn't learn until recently.

Things that make you "Cool" In High School

...Mean Nothing Now.

High school is its own little world. Popularity is {most commonly} based on a person's looks, activities, and their sense of fashion that place them in their "appropriate" spot on the social hierarchy.

 

Throwing the winning touch down  in a high school football game, wearing the latest trends, telling the best fart joke, and scoring the highest score on a calculus test are all things that fuel the "cool factor" in each person's "clique" in school.

...and then you graduate.

When High School ends, those things don't matter. If I could go back, I would have spent less time worrying about what jeans were in style, what hairstyle Britney Spears had, and who was "going out" with who, and would have spent more time on building myself as a person.

 Instead of gossiping about who is dating who, or ditching a "boring" class to get a coffee, I wish I would have taken time to get to know the girl I was gossiping about, and taken advantage of the free education I was being given.

I think part of the beauty of life is looking back and reflecting. I may not have gained everything from high school that I would as "adult Jeni" but I think that's part of the point. I was able to take these experiences from high school, some a day after graduating, and others I'm sure I've yet to learn, and apply them to life that I live today as both a wife and a mother.

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