Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: March 23, 2023 06:39PM
I made a joke in another thread, alluding to being ridiculed in high school. I began a response in that thread after a second expression of sorrow for my plight was made...
Doing so had me reviewing my four years at Rancho High (go Rams!), and the reverie became more and more intense, as the memories heaved up out of their dusty filing cabinets.
Mormonism was an integral part of high school, and it kept me a virgin and WoW observant. Thank heavenly father that there were no scriptures against heavy petting and Levi-loving! The opinions of mortal men didn't count...
Probably no matter what your religion, high school can be tough. I bet even for Superior Beings, like Roy G Biv, HS wasn't all Skittles and Root Beer...
No one ever made fun of me in high school, other than me. Lots of good times, lots of angst, and for most of us, the angst of True Love. (In 8th grade, I wanted to get married, but 'she' never knew that...)
Some of us had early morning seminary tacked onto the HS experience; I did four years of it, even attending the six days in a row that I ditched school during Senior year. But that was only because that's where my girlfriend and I would meet.
A case can be made that the more interesting times of your life were when you successfully integrated normalcy with wild and crazy times; it wasn't just one or the other, but there was never any telling which one you'd be experiencing in an hour.
Once I got my driver's license, 8am Priesthood meetings were nothing more than all of us giving our post-action reports.
We had some hot Laurels, but in high school, none of us ever dated within our ward. How was it in your ward?