I love watching people at lunch. Everyone turns into animals and follows an exact science. We all drop our bags and race into the line and grab our food. Freshmen walk nervously feeling out of place. Seniors walk with pride and push through everyone else rudely. We push in and forget our manners. We grab what we want and type in our code hoping we have enough money left because ewe forgot to ask our parents the night before. Then we run out back to our tables.
Girls sit down at a table with their Propel and chips filling in right beside each other as close as possible talking. They talk so much they can hardly eat. While boys, fill in on complete opposite sides of the table as far from each other as possible. They stay staring at their food and only acknowledge each other with grunts and then begin shoveling their over flowing trays in their mouths with two hands. It is so amusing to watch and observe.
People strive to be different and not follow the norm, but we are all still so similar at the end of the day. We come from the same culture, diversity cannot be by much. I think it’s funny that people think their lives after high school in the “real world” will be so different. There are still “cliques” in the real world; they are just based off of different things. Things like occupation, marriage status, income, and success. People will still judge you and make assumptions. There will always be people present in life to do that, it doesn’t go away. You still have to work for your title and your reputation can still be trashed, just on a different scale. There will still be annoying people at work you don’t like. There will still be someone too good and too rich, someone promiscuous, and an outcast. High school is a petri dish or sample platter of the real world.
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