Also, Everything gets better after you leave High School, and it can continue to get better for a looong time.
Probably atypical counter-example: I’m pretty sure I had significant opportunities to get laid my last year in HS (which, being an idiot, I did nothing about), more so than I have since.
Well I know very little about you but if you’re kind of nerdy and went to a co-ed high school then developed a much nerdier social circle on hitting university, and as a result had less opportunity you wouldn’t be too atypical. On idiocy, did you know the opportunities were there and not take them or are they obvious only in retrospect? If the latter I wouldn’t bother dwelling on it because you couldn’t have known, and if you didn’t take them for principled reasons you no longer endorse I wouldn’t either. Values change. Now if you knew damned well you could have, wanted to, and still somehow couldn’t do it, then yes, you were an idiot. Speaking as someone who was in that last category well after high school.
Awesome post, thanks for it.
Probably atypical counter-example: I’m pretty sure I had significant opportunities to get laid my last year in HS (which, being an idiot, I did nothing about), more so than I have since.
Well I know very little about you but if you’re kind of nerdy and went to a co-ed high school then developed a much nerdier social circle on hitting university, and as a result had less opportunity you wouldn’t be too atypical. On idiocy, did you know the opportunities were there and not take them or are they obvious only in retrospect? If the latter I wouldn’t bother dwelling on it because you couldn’t have known, and if you didn’t take them for principled reasons you no longer endorse I wouldn’t either. Values change. Now if you knew damned well you could have, wanted to, and still somehow couldn’t do it, then yes, you were an idiot. Speaking as someone who was in that last category well after high school.