High School is one of those times in your life where you don't really have any concept of reality. In going back to a high school football game I realized how much of one's life is put into the "high school days" as we call it. You live within this "world," society has labeled "high school." For some it is all that their life entails, never realizing or even fathoming that, they actually have to graduate. The typical high school "jock" is the stereotypical image that flashes before my eyes. For this type of a person, yes their entire existence relies on being popular, fantasizing about being homecoming queen or king. How empty their lives must be, yet, within their pettiness, there is no thought that somewhere there might actually be more than just this perpetual walking through halls, gossiping about what the girl in the cafeteria was wears. "Oh My God, (OMG) Did you see What she was WEARING??"
Someone purposed the question, "why is it that the football stars always get the nominations for homecoming king?" It is because they are the ones who get the most votes. Now let's think about this for a moment... Why, if they're all jocks and jerks do they get the MOST votes? It's the average kids that vote for them! It's because within this utopian society some call high school, everyone wants to be like the Jocks, popular, attractive, got it all together. That's why they get the most votes. It's this backwards mindset of conformity. Learn to be your own person, how to value yourself.
Seeing this homecoming game, and the stock that teenagers put into this world, I have come to the conclusion that no longer should we blame these kids for not growing up. We, as a society, have taught them to be this way. We have told them, "this is your existence." Never telling them we value honesty, kindheartedness, genuineness, hard-work, no this is the generation that the world has created.
Some people, myself included, have thought, "why did my parents homeschool me?" This is the reason, they believed that it was NOT okay for me to be told by the societal norms that slacking off, skipping school, bitterness, resentment, envy, jealousy, gossip, is okay. They wanted to instill within me the values that i too one day would appreciate. Here i am, almost 19 years old, and i know what the real world holds. I am going to college, and working full time. I get it. I understand now that, friday night football games with my friends is not the only thing i have to live for. I just hope for the sake of the future of our great Country, that someone teaches the new generation of today, what is truly valued. Being educated, and living with Integrity, Learning to Communicate with other people, and making a life for yourself and your children. This is what we have strived for, I just hope, "high school" doesn't tear apart all that the founders of this country had built it on.
