Lately I've been thinking and discussing with a friend of mine about our high-school days. Even if it's not that long ago that we were dumb, disproportionately over weight, with bad hair cuts and slightly different sense of humor than the one we have now, these days seem so far away but amazing all the same.
I was watching The Laguna Beach on MTV and tried to think of what I was doing back when I was at that age and compare my life with these kids' life. For those of you who have absolutely no clue what The Laguna Beach is, it's a show on MTV following the “real” life of college/high-school graduates from Orange County California. Basically, a bunch of hot girls who like ripped successful, even at 17/8/9 guys, gossip, romance and drama. It's also about guys who surf, wear flip-flops, love parties and getting laid/make out with the previously mentioned ridiculously hot girls while eating sushi at expensive bars and while the girls are competing in bitchiness, make up wearing, high-heel wearing and sluttiness (the latter for only some of them).
Let's begin from the sense of style I had back then. First of all I had big fluffy hair that I was badly straighten every morning, I was overweight and overtly sarcastic with very little friends. I used to watch scooby doo, stupid comedies, read novels and watch The Laguna Beach. Alright, let's start the comparison then.
Back then I was wearing shorts/jeans/track suits (depending on the weather and my mood), bright color t-shirts or checkered shirts, checkered vans shoes, I was saying the wrong thing at the right time and I was secretly overweight. And when I say secretly, I mean it. No one could tell I was a fatty till I took of my shirt which didn't happen very often or not at all.
On the other hand the guys and girls from The Laguna Beach even though they're in high-school/ college they get to have the perfect body, surf and be cool all over. So, let's just say that I'm going down a peg for not having a six pack at the age of 17/18 like these kids in Laguna Beach do/did. Plus I smoked back then too so that's another peg down for me. Let's just say I fail the health/ appearance sector miserably.
Let's examine the sociability factor now. If being in a high-school team counts as being social then I'm proud to say that I was a member of our high-school basketball team. Regardless if that was for skipping classes and pretending I'm practicing with the other guys. And regardless if I barely played in any games. And regardless if at our final game and most crucial, half an hour before the game while everyone was practicing I skipped practice to buy a cheese pie, a cup of coffee and have a cigarette and then during the game I was walking up down the court doing nothing at all apart from just being there looking happy and lost at the same time, asking for a pass and a chance to screw the game for everyone. To be honest I was pretty much a burden but I enjoyed it because I got to piss my team mates off.
Now the kids in Laguna Beach are into sports like crazy and usually the “jocks” are like a family and everyone's ripped and cool and have the perfect hair and is famous. I was famous too but for all the wrong reasons. All and all I was a needle of secretly overweight clumsiness in a stack of slightly cool“jock” hay.
Continuing with the sociability factor I used to talk to only 4 people, and one of them was a "smoking buddy" of mine. From the rumors I heard when I graduated and rumors I heard when I was still in high-school most of the kids thought I was either funny or irritatingly stupid or really immature. Pretty much everyone thought I was weird, apart from my friends. Moreover, the guys from the basketball team wanted to raise money so I go to a hairdresser and shave my head. Thing that never happened. I was never invited to any parties and to the ones I was invited to I never went cause I believed I'd die of boredom.
On the other hand the Laguna Beach kids seem to throw parties every other day and have fun make out and all together have a pretty fun fun time. I'm willing to put money down that I would never be invited to any of their parties so I'm going to say that I fail miserably the sociability factor too.
Uhm what else. My kind of fun used to be going out with my best friend, dressing up in a way we thought we'd look real cool, but actually looking fat with our fringes getting in our eyes, and hanging outside a club at the center of athens with 2 souvlaki and 2 beers each, talk and judge the people who come and go from the club and say retarded jokes.
Finally I believe it's useless to talk about the relationship factor as the closest I've got to a girl was when a 2 years older girl, in her final year in high-school, who I had a crush on offered me a chewing gum while waiting to get my soda from our school's coffee shop. That was the talk of the town for me for over a month. I made all these scenarios in my head how she liked me back and that, that was her move and I kept thinking about it till I saw her kissing her boyfriend which gave me a pretty rough landing. But wait a minute, now that I think about it, there was another girl who I liked and we started talking. She had style and we listened to the same kind of music. We started sharing the same desk, I got kicked out a couple of times for talking to her during class till one day during a class she said: “I want us to be more than friends” I got really excited and I said that I'd love that too. Then she smiled and said “I want you to fuck me”. That's when I noticed that her hair was so greasy that I could see her scalp and she reeked of camel lights. I said “yeah sure...” and then after that class she stopped talking to me.
On the other hand it seems that these guys and girls from The Laguna Beach, they never run out of romance, fairy tale boning, chewing gums and shushi.
Even though it seems that I would fail miserably integrating in the society of the kids from The Laguna Beach and I'd look even weirder than I looked when in my high-school days, as these kids are a really bad imitation of grown-ups in that show, I don't believe I'd change anything that I did back then. These were my moments and every move has mine and my friends' name written all over it. The only thing I'd do if I was invited in one of the Laguna Beach kids' parties back then, is to get drunk and act in the stupidest way possible. And that only because from being too excited to be invited at a party with a mix of pretty and slutty girls. If I was invited now, I'd probably go and chill trying to look cool. Now I gotta go cause Laguna Beach is on.
Much Gangsta Luv and till the next time, bababooee
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