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The most popular girl in my graduating class (and I do mean most popular; she made an effort to make friends with literally everyone), head cheerleader, is now the head director at the local homeless shelter.She never married, has no kids, 37. Still an absolute babe.
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She went on to become a world traveler and Buddhist and now runs a non-profit providing microloans to female-owned global businesses.She was also my first real crush, and I’m so happy she lived up to my silent pedestal.
I got voted most popular at my high school. Prom king, Captain of the football team type stuff. myb8th grade summer the best advice I ever received from my older sister was to be nice to everyone when you start high school. Geeks, loners, punkers, jocks, band kids. I was nice to all of them. I’m 38 now and people from high school put on their best face when they see me because I treated them like a friend. My life is really good because I was kind.
Prom king and queen got married shortly after high school. Forty years later, they live within 5 miles of the farms where they grew up. They made some athletic, attractive kids along the way.
One of them put a catheter in my wiener when I had surgery.
I’d do the split like this: popular and mean to others vs. popular and positive with others.The popular and positive all did well in life and careers. The meanies lost whatever advantages they had in school to their own nastiness.
He went to Harvard. Works in finance and married a stunningly beautiful woman who works for Google.They live in London. I’m not jealous of much in life, but his string of wins challenges my equanimity.
She became a kick a*s nurse; she was on the healthcare professionals team who helped one of my friends give birth to healthy twins.
I’m in my early 30s now and I can’t even remember off the top of my head what the good looking ultra popular kids at my high school were named. If I had to guess they probably got good jobs and have successful lives, but those people had so little impact on my life that I couldn’t begin to care less.
Went to Stanford, became a cancer researcher, founded a nonprofit, got a PhD and MD from Harvard + MIT, now works on rare children’s diseases. Solid guy.
They went to college or the workplace and found out they were just average.
Failed musician and cryptobro who spent the pandemic posting videos of himself arguing with store staff about masks.
She became a b-grade celebrity, came out as lesbian and was lauded for her bravery, started a social justice campaign for the rainbow community and against bullying until it was revealed that she’d also been the worst bully at our school, especially towards lesbian and bi girls. She’s kept her head down since. .
My friend likes to send me the prom king’s latest mugshot.
Deceased. Motorcycle accident. He was nice, funny, generous, and kind of a rascal. So basically everybody liked him. He was in med school when he died.
Most of them were good-looking and ultra-popular because they came from stable if not affluent financial backgrounds. They got the acne treatments they needed, were able to buy nice clothes, were much more experienced navigating social situations, etc. So plenty of them just kept that momentum going and had good successful college experiences, and entered successful careers. Anecdotally, when I’ve met these people now I always get this weird intuition like they’re not fully self aware?Plenty of others peaked in high school though, and their lives went downhill afterward. And plenty of them lived privileged lives that self destructed after a point. There are some particular karmic situations I’ve seen.I dunno…everything happens to everyone. I was at my lowest point ever in high school, so I get to experience life as only getting better from there :).
I’m from a small town.So most of those people still live within an hour of that small town. Just doing regular person s**t.The most successful person was probably the co-valedictorian. They were not pretty or popular. Last I saw on LinkedIn they were Chief of Medicine at some hospital on the west coast.
After graduation, no one in the real world gave a c**p about who they were or what they did in high school. No one. Also, having attended a couple class reunions now, I’ve observed that most of the popular guys are now overweight and balding. The popular girls are no longer thin, and seem to have older-looking faces than the “nerd” girls. Back in high school, I never would have believed this would happen to them, but it has.
The only one I knew well ( I was in the Art/Theater/Music crowd) was class president and a basketball star in high school, went to state college, married young, became a pilot. Very nice human.I ran into him in a bar about 15 years later. He was in his second marriage and seemed to be doing OK.He told me high school was the best time of his life, which made me sad for him. .
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They are a bartender at a small town bar in the middle of nowhere that still let’s you smoke cigarettes inside. I was very surprised when she asked if I wanted an ashtray with my drink.
Became a stock broker, developed dg and pn addiction, got low, got clean, married a mormon woman. Got her addicted to crack. Continued to smoke crack with his mormon wife, get her pregnant, get arrested for fraud and sent to prison last I checked.
A few became touring musicians. One became a commercial and b movie actor. One got fifth in the Olympics. One played minor league baseball, but ds caught up to him. One woman became a pnstar and died of an overdose. A few of the best athletes I played with committed s****e because they weren’t good enough to go pro.
The popular quarterback at my school, had 3 divorces, 2 kids and works in a low end construction job.
They’re lording it up in that same small town. Their last names got them everything in nowheresville, they couldn’t hack it in a real town or city.
One looks exactly the same and is a teacher married to a doctor. They have a huge house in the city and four kids. She was just a pretty, smart, socially capable but not aggressively popular girl with professional parents and became a similarly respectable adult. I’d like to feel bitter about it but I can’t— if I were a successful doctor who could have his pick of women, I’d marry her, too.One became a teacher at our high school. He was funny and class president and everyone legitimately liked him. I guess it’s kind of strange he found his place where he was successful as a kid and just stayed there but I think his genuine love for the place probably adds to his appeal to the kids.
I graduated high school in 2019. The most popular girl in my high school won miss teen our state (her first beauty pageant) and now is a supporting character in a few box office horror movies. She was always the kindest person. Always had guys fawning over her. But worked at Dairy Queen all through high school and came from a poor family.The most popular guy committed s*****e. Then his father pasted in a hurricane. And then his mother passed from cancer. Last I heard, his sister is in school to be a therapist and has a service animal for her panic attacks.
One went off the deep end and never was able to come to terms with the fact that he was gay. Lots of ds, last I heard of him.One still looks pretty good for her age but is a bit of a Facebook attention queen. Married the bowl cut dude who thought he was hot st.One’s got a s*t ton of kids and does well for herself. Married the stoner football jock.The other one was a POS and heroin laced with fentanyl got him. Good riddance.
He became a stock broker. Married a pretty woman, they had good looking kids. He’s still married, posts pictures of his grandbabies on Facebook. Still a good guy.
The dude was amazing. Tall, good-looking and talented. Everyone thought he’d be in movies, a band, or both. He wasn’t stuck up, and everyone liked him.Had a psychological break due to undiagnosed issues, got into h****n and became homeless.
I lived in a town known for it’s oil refineries and chemical plants. Most of the popular kids I knew got hooked up right out of high school with good jobs at the plants and are now in high-level management positions making high six figures. Some of them went to college and are entrepreneurs for various things, like one dude has his own fitness supplements and another guy has a marketing consultancy.Nearly all of the popular girls left Houston and went to college in Dallas. I don’t know what they went for. They are now all in real estate or are housewives, and the majority of them married much older men. Several of them have been “grandmas” since they were around 30.
Ran into him years after school, he got fat and lost much of his hair.
MLMs. So many MLMs.
The guys became lawyers with daddy’s firm and are all rich now. The women mostly married rich lawyers. They seem to have done quite well overall.
2 Doctors, 1 dentist, 2 engineers and one in sales no one did anything huge but they live good lives.
Most went to college, got good jobs, bought houses, married other attractive people and the cycle continues.
Good looking girls? Mostly flight attendants and married to pilots.The rest were into high end jobs.
I believe he runs a hedge fund now. Or is high up at a hedge fund.
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