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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a middle of the road floater- got along with everyone. 2nd tier popular- not the most popular, but was friends with the most popular kids (as well as everyone else) and well known. Plenty of friends and never really had any issues at all in high school with mean girls or bullying or anything like that.

[b]I'm pretty much the same way now. By and large the most popular in my high school are uh, kind of losers. I'm from the South and most of them seem to have stayed in our hometown and settled in. Mediocre jobs, most of them didn't graduate from college or never went and aren't as good looking as they were in high school. (Oh how blessed I feel not to have hit my peak at 17. I was cute then, but much better looking now.) They lead pretty small lives. A couple went to rehab. [/b]

I'm not sure if your meek daughter will inherit the earth, but I will say, some of the kids I went to school with who were labeled as nerds or geeks really ARE fabulously funny and interesting adults now, and I would way rather be friends with them and hang out and chat than with the simpletons who were the most popular. [/quote]

I am from a place where the popular kids -- the HS prom king, football star, are doing perfectly fine and often in very "outgoing" professions like sales/marketing etc. I think the distinction in how the popular kids end up is about the wealth and opportunity in the town. I've heard what you are saying from lots of my friends from small towns; seems like the options were to work really hard to get out for college and stay out for a professional life or to stick around. If you stuck around, there may not have been much educational opportunity beyond community college, if that, and that's when people have to settle for local retail/factory etc. jobs and those are the people you see who talk about the glory days of the HS football championship because that was their biggest achievement. In communities where parents have more resources, it seems like it's easier to go to college - and even if it isn't the best college in the world, you see HS football stars who go to them and discover some sort of passion/interest or maybe a realization that they'll need to earn a living.[/quote]

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