High school. We've gone through it. Or maybe you're currently going through it or are really close to it. Whatever the case, even when you graduate, you'll never really leave. Once you are out in "the real world", you'll begin to notice that life isn't much different than the halls and classrooms of your high school. Once you have your first job, even if it is during high school, you'll begin to realize that the adults you work with are the same as the people you go to school with. There's always someone that people like talking to the most. There's always an outsider of the colleagues. There is always someone causing drama, and trying to act better than everyone else. There's someone too worried about smoking or being cool instead of doing their work. The workplace is barely for work anymore. Everyone seems to have their "cliques" and the materialistic things such as what you look like and the things you buy are all that really matters. Oh you save your money? Well that's just dumb because look at my brand new purse and gorgeous new haircut along with a coloring and blowout. Those people are just better because no one seems to look at their future anymore. Saving money is all people complain about, but once their swiping that credit card for the thousandth time, it completely slips their mind.

You know that popular football star in high school? He's the guy trying to pick up girls at work instead of actually working. He gets the people to do the work for him, and uses that famous charm to do so. That pothead that barely showed up to classes and almost didn't graduate? They've been late to work six times in the past three weeks; and they show up to work high almost every day. Or what about the popular girl that got around to every guy in high school? She just showed up to work, pregnant, at a mere age of 18. Now, I am not bashing anyone or their life decisions during or after high school, but life seems to fall into patterns for most people, and I doubt it'll ever change. You think that your co workers like working with you and they act like your best friends, but then later, you find out that they talk about you whenever you aren't there. Whether you stay out of the drama or not, and whether you talk poorly about your co workers or not, you know that you hear someone being talked about, at least once a day, if not more.

Personally, I was happy that high school ended. I wanted to get to college and go into the workforce where people were more mature and acted like adults. Clearly, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. We wish that we grow up, but once it happens, we realize that it isn't what we wanted. No one ever really grows up though. We're all stuck in the past; whether it's high school, or a different part of life that we lived. The times after high school and beyond are different, and are filled with less rules and regulations, but how different are they really? How many times have you gone to work, or talked to someone outside of school, and thought back to high school instantly? Did you think back to class? Or to the chatter in the hallways? High school was a great four years, and it generally is pretty good at times for most people, but do we really have to live it every day of our lives? Sure, we aren't learning and sometimes we aren't getting up early and having to deal with teachers or anything of that nature, but it's all the same. The teachers become our bosses. The classmates become our co workers. The other school staff becomes people that we encounter on a daily basis. Will it ever change? We may never know; but as far as I can tell, we're all stuck there, and whether you're happy about it or not, it's reality.