High Schooling

It's kind of funny looking back in time and remembering what you go through going up, and seeing all the dumb things you do as a kid. It's even worse seeing the dumb things ingrained in our society that's become the norm. I went to my parent's house on Sunday and found that my mom had left a stack of applicants for some scholarship that her organization is sponsoring, asking me to read over them and pick the ones I like since her English isn't that great. I ended up skimming through a big ass stack of maybe 40 kids, listing the usual stuff like their transcript, their extracurricular activities, and an essay about someone they admired.

Yikes.

I seriously can't believe how lame it is to see every kid go through the same song and dance to get to a good college. Granted I'm probably different since I didn't give two shits about most of that stuff when I was actually that age, but at least then I could see all my peers doing it and just thought it was a normal thing to do. All the clubs that people sign up for, all the volunteering for random places like hospitals or labs, all the extra classes that people take to get those 4.5 GPA's. How can anyone look back at that life and not realize how much bullshit all that stuff is? Seriously. Every kid is exactly the same, trying to overachieve to impress some college entrance dude with a bunch of cookie cutter lists. I don't get it. I can't believe how fake that whole life is, let alone the presumption that all those things actually make a difference or make a better person for it all.

Seriously. You think some kid joining 10 different clubs is a benefit to society? Those things are created for the sole purpose of artificially making a kid look good. No one signs up for those things because they want to; it's all fake. No one volunteers at those hospitals when they're 15 unless their parents are forcing them to be a doctor. All those kids that are signed up to track and field because they can run as slow as fuck and still be on a team, or play some instrument that they'll never touch again in their lives (yeah yeah, myself included on that one), or some internship at an office in some field they have absolutely no interest in. I just can't believe how impersonal and un-unique these things are, as if they're supposed to make you stand out in life. All they make me think is mommy and daddy pushed their kid too hard and took away 4 years of high school life just for college.

I know some of these kids pan out to do something special in life, but man does that depress me. I'd never push my kid in that direction. Regardless, I tried to pick kids that did something unique, that were inspired by someone else other then their Dad who was such a great man, or their Grandmother that taught them to be good when they were 7. Lame! Cheers to the person that wrote about their eating disorder and learned something about life.

Rant over.