High schools are a vital period in the development of a person, as it puts one through a serious of brutal social tests that determine the direction of their future.
The views surrounding high schools are weird. Normies often tell you that high school does not matter, and that no one cares about what you did during that time. This partially true, as those 4 years are a fleeting moment in your life. And you will eventually go on in life to get a career and start a family. However, normies will also turn to consume many movies and shows that surround high school. Riverdale, 13 Reasons, and Stranger Things are only 3 among what may be thousands of media surrounding high school. It is perhaps one of the most romanticized periods of life in film.
Most members of this forum got blackpilled during their teen years. Why is this? During the your development, you gain the ability to analyze the world around you. You begin to see that girls go for good looking jerks, while average nice guys get ignored. Compounded by teenage hormones during puberty, a young incel starts to realize where things go wrong even before he ever hears of the word "incel."
But that is just four years right? It shouldn't matter. Average humans live around age 80. According to The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, "experiences children have early in life play a crucial role in the development of the brain. Exposure to positive factors, especially stable and responsive relationships with parents and other adults, and safe and supportive environments promote positive development." Once someone goes through four long years of endless mogging, bullying, rejection (romantic and aromantic), and more, they become bitter. Meanwhile, Chads and Stacies go through four years of nourishment and positive experiences. Nothing else feels right. Nothing is more raw. Nothing is more REAL.
High school is like a church, except the influence high schools have on a person's development are stronger than the Roman Catholic Church. Most American Christians probably attend church on Sundays only. People have to go to school every weekday, making friends, climbing the social ladder, constantly fighting in a battle to ensure that their four years go as smoothly as possible. There are many things that can go wrong. One "cringey" moment, like being bad at basketball can send you toppling down the staircase. If you're athletic, and you massacre the enemy team in kickball, then you score one "cool" point. For every "cringey" moment that occurs, you need 5 "cool" moments to back them up. If you are born ugly, short and neurodivergent, then the test is already over. Most incels don't have one "cool moment." It is an endless landslide of cringe and awkwardness. To make matters worse, there is a time constraint on this great trial. One of the most brutal aspects of high school is that it is a very short time. You only get so many chances to fix mistakes and get it together, or your formative years become a graveyard to look back upon.
Conclusion and TLDR: High school is the most important four years in determining whether someone becomes an outcast later in life or not. There is only one chance to complete the Great Trial, and you fail, then it is very hard, perhaps impossible to come back from a failure of this magnitude.
The views surrounding high schools are weird. Normies often tell you that high school does not matter, and that no one cares about what you did during that time. This partially true, as those 4 years are a fleeting moment in your life. And you will eventually go on in life to get a career and start a family. However, normies will also turn to consume many movies and shows that surround high school. Riverdale, 13 Reasons, and Stranger Things are only 3 among what may be thousands of media surrounding high school. It is perhaps one of the most romanticized periods of life in film.
Most members of this forum got blackpilled during their teen years. Why is this? During the your development, you gain the ability to analyze the world around you. You begin to see that girls go for good looking jerks, while average nice guys get ignored. Compounded by teenage hormones during puberty, a young incel starts to realize where things go wrong even before he ever hears of the word "incel."
But that is just four years right? It shouldn't matter. Average humans live around age 80. According to The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, "experiences children have early in life play a crucial role in the development of the brain. Exposure to positive factors, especially stable and responsive relationships with parents and other adults, and safe and supportive environments promote positive development." Once someone goes through four long years of endless mogging, bullying, rejection (romantic and aromantic), and more, they become bitter. Meanwhile, Chads and Stacies go through four years of nourishment and positive experiences. Nothing else feels right. Nothing is more raw. Nothing is more REAL.
High school is like a church, except the influence high schools have on a person's development are stronger than the Roman Catholic Church. Most American Christians probably attend church on Sundays only. People have to go to school every weekday, making friends, climbing the social ladder, constantly fighting in a battle to ensure that their four years go as smoothly as possible. There are many things that can go wrong. One "cringey" moment, like being bad at basketball can send you toppling down the staircase. If you're athletic, and you massacre the enemy team in kickball, then you score one "cool" point. For every "cringey" moment that occurs, you need 5 "cool" moments to back them up. If you are born ugly, short and neurodivergent, then the test is already over. Most incels don't have one "cool moment." It is an endless landslide of cringe and awkwardness. To make matters worse, there is a time constraint on this great trial. One of the most brutal aspects of high school is that it is a very short time. You only get so many chances to fix mistakes and get it together, or your formative years become a graveyard to look back upon.
Conclusion and TLDR: High school is the most important four years in determining whether someone becomes an outcast later in life or not. There is only one chance to complete the Great Trial, and you fail, then it is very hard, perhaps impossible to come back from a failure of this magnitude.
