What screams I peaked in high school?

Getting the score of the football game you won against the school's rival tattooed on your shoulder.

When I was in high school, this guy a year before me had a fearsome reputation.

At house parties, people would fear him just by name alone.

He would show up to parties with his cronies and start fights.

He came from a decent enough family.

Everybody wanted to be on his good side.

Anyway, he graduates high school, and most of us were still in 12th grade.

I remember he used to come around lunchtime to smoke with the people out front,

shoot the breeze, and talk about how much fun it is to sleep in and do nothing

and have all this freedom. A couple of months of, oh, cool, to why are you still here? As we

awkwardly shuffled back to class. Some of the popular kids from high school still get together

very frequently, and you see updates of it on Facebook. I also keep touch with some friends

from high school, and I think that that's nice. However, one of those friends of mine once ran

into them during one of their get-togethers. He said hi and happened to be sitting not too far from

them at the bar. He said that all they did for the whole night was talk about high school.

They looked up old classmates on Facebook,

laughed at them, called them names, looked at their spouses, and called them names too.

They still thought themselves the popular kids, as if they still had some sort of influence

on all these people. Everyone has moved on, done interesting things in their life,

except for them. They're just rehashing old drama and old rumors.

One of those girls had a small bit of success as a photographer in high school.

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