Ponder Place

Andrew wrote:

I have now been graduated from high school for a year now. Oh and how good it feels to get out of all the drama, classes, and crappy lunches… can’t say lunches get any better but still. Well I was just wonder what makes a kid live his past. Always wanting to go back. Living for the next reunion. Why?

High School serves a purpose for each individual privileged enough to attend.

For some it is education. For others it is social development. And for a few it is a nightmare that seemingly won’t end despite the absence of attendance after graduation.

I believe the people you are referring too would fall under my second category. Those whose primary benefit of high school was the social aspects. Usually they are unable to let go of high school because they were unable to develop past the level of social advancement high school offers. As a result of not completing this social advancement, they are left butting their heads against this proverbial wall. Constantly referring back to high school because this was the last successful bit of social achievement they experienced.

Also it could be that they had such a great experience that none other since has left sufficient impression to distract them from those experiences found in high school.

It’s a lack of achievement in post-high school life that will most likely bring on this personality defect in someone. Or maybe I’m incorrect in labeling it as a defect. But then again, some would say dating a sixteen year old when your thirty is wrong (defective).

I guess I would be correct.

————————
Submit your own Ponderment requests HERE.