Life And High School.

Does life evolve past high school?

Obvious answer aside, think of it more like an allegory.

You have the jocks (the athletes we all watch on TV), the nerds (the academics who propel technology forward), the cliques (your social circle who you hang out with the most), the class rep (our mayors and to a greater extent our Prime Minister), the scene kids (early adopters for new products), the big-thinkers (ie. entrepreneurs), the drop outs (—“can you spare some change?”), and the bullies (—“empty your pockets or I’ll empty them for you!”), just to name a few…

The point is, we all think that we’ve evolved past high school, when the truth is that we have merely transformed from one medium to the next; changing roles in the process.

Why? Because high school is just an allegory for our lives. The thing is, to think back on our old high school days—“oh, how dumb we all were!”—is to realize that, soon, we’ll all be thinking the exact same thing about this point in our lives. It isn’t that high school is our life, more so that the way we look back and view high school is how we will inevitably view the life stage that we are currently in.

It’s only upon looking back, reflecting on past experiences, that we can realize how far we’ve all truly come—how much we’ve all “evolved”—only to look back a decade later and think the exact same thing about the time that we are currently in.

So, don’t take life too seriously; don’t take matters too grandly; for, in the end, it will only be the fond memories that make the whole thing worth reliving, and all else just a distant memory of us being “so damn naive”.

-Groundhog day, every day.