2 years ago one of the most popular guys from my 1987 High School Class died. He was a nice guy, played football, went to the Naval Academy and stayed in the Navy. When he died there were a zillion emails back and forth with all kinds of shit to raise $ for his son, an annual golf tournament was arranged in his honor with his son getting the proceeds, etc......HUGE Funeral, etc.....

A "not popular", but smart guy just died from my high school who dedicated his life to helping others. He had volenteered thousands of hours, was a newspaper reporter.......... 1 email was sent about his obiturary and 1 more with a more detailed obituary.

I found an article from his newspaper about his death and sent it to everyone..... I got 2 replies...... then I found a tribute page for him and sent the link to everyone....I got 1 reply......

It is funny how after 20 years people will go to the end of the earth for one guy, but not even give a shit about a different guy who probably did more good for the world than the popular guy.

Just sort of venting..... kind of sad.....

 

That is very sad, i was hoping when i clicked on this thread it would be how these"clicks" went away. Fun things to look forward too

 

Things don't change when you leave high school. The "real" world has the same cliques but in the form of corporate management....

Sad, but thats life

 

That's life. I remember when I worked as a graduate intern. I had some of my old classmates who went to work right after they got their BS's. For some reason they treated me different than other employees eventhough I did the same job they were doing. I didn't get invited to lunch 1/2 the time or happy hour. I thought in school we were all on a level playing field but at work I guess they all got big heads. About three months into the job I gave up trying to fit in and hung out with the other interns. A year later the the company had layoffs and about 1/2 the people got canned. Interns were first. I didn't care too much because I didn't need the money. I overheard some of my old classmates saying how they where too important to get layed off, but sure enough their time came. Young know it all people are the worst clicks. I also remember a couple of months after graduating HS the most popular kid died in a freak accident. There was a huge funeral and he even had stories in the news on several channels. They talked about is life and how fortunate he was and how he had the best looking white washed Mexican chick you can ever find. Damn she was hot. Anyway, I thought it was unfair how he got so much attention, but like stated above, that's the way things are.

Sam

 

Yes, sometimes the human nature is very sad.

 

The lesson here is: be social so people will like you when you die.

j/k

Eh, in the end it doesn't matter to me how many people "care" about me, as long as its my close family and friends.

"I'd rather have a few great friends, than a lot of O.K. aquaintances."


So, on the one hand its kinda sad, but on the other, its not. I'm sure the "not popular guy" had someone grieving for him.



As far as cliques. I could care less. My life didn't start until college, where I actually got to choose my friends rather than, my friends being chosen geographcally. Even though I care for them, I rarely talk to my H.S friends; and the kids that were in cliques, hold on to those days. I don't know if that's good or bad. I know its good for MYspace.


Lastly, about equality. There are a lot of people on earth; in America, like the not popular guy. People who sacrifice for others, but are never recognized because what they do is, day to day. It's not special in the terms of creating the lightbulb, but its special in its own way. And if people would stop trying to ONLY re-invent the lightbulb and take things day to day we would be better off.

We get a lot of mileage in trying to be the "best". We over work, for what? To make the world a better place? I dunno.


Sorry to hear about those losses, and what can you say...that's life...

 

I haven't kept in touch with anyone from my high school. 2 more years and it will be 40 years.

 

there are only 3 people out of the 700 i graduated with that i still talk to on a regular basis

 

undeserving, but rich and powerful people (who were probably mean and selfish as hell) get big funerals all the time. it really sucks and it says something about the people who go to them. humans are animals with clothes, always climbing the friggin social totem pole. i doubt anyone will be at my funeral.

 

ya, all kinds of emails back and forth for the football player, but this poor bastard who was a great guy as well gets nothing other than me sending links to his tribute site.....no one offers to start any contributions, golf tornaments, etc.....

if i die, maybe some of you assholes could show up and make it seem like i was a little important...