i dont think the problem is lack of maturity, i think its lack of not being an asshole.
to paraphrase someone i know: “i had enough of being mature in gradeschool. im fucking done with that.”
I was surrounded by that kind of people when I was in school. Got rid of them all just by treating them the same way they used to treat me. You should try it, too, and go make new friends as everybody has already said.
Originally posted by Mazrim Taim [b]
no i’m not here to LEARN!
i just want to get DRUNK!
and major in BUSINESS!
and be taught how to FUCK! WHOO!WIN! WIN! I always play to win!
Wanna fit in like a cog
in a faceless machine!i’m a terminal (terminal) terminal preppie!
terminal (terminal) terminal preppie!
…
–“terminal preppie,” dead kennedys [/b]
Excellent song choice. 
Gives Maz Props
Everyone else, just remember to turn on your bullshit detectors: High School is not important, it does not matter. It’s like being inside the matrix: the real world waits for you outside those imaginary walls. The sooner you catch on to that and cease taking the “Drama” of that place even slightly seriously, the better of you’ll be. The other people are props who turn back into pumpkins and disappear once you graduate. So ahead and practice and experiment on them. (“Try out” personas / material or whatever. Flirt with people you don’t care less about “scoring” with so that you’ll be in practice when you find someone worth hooking up with a couple years down the road. Apply those notes you’re taking in that psychology class and have a little field-research fun.)
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Welcome to the wonderful world of puberty, hormones and peer pressure.
Originally posted by KaiserVonAlmasy
[b]Excellent song choice.Everyone else, just remember to turn on your bullshit detectors: High School is not important, it does not matter. It’s like being inside the matrix: the real world waits for you outside those imaginary walls. The sooner you catch on to that and cease taking the “Drama” of that place even slightly seriously, the better of you’ll be. The other people are props who turn back into pumpkins and disappear once you graduate. So ahead and practice and experiment on them. (“Try out” personas / material or whatever. Flirt with people you don’t care less about “scoring” with so that you’ll be in practice when you find someone worth hooking up with a couple years down the road. Apply those notes you’re taking in that psychology class and have a little field-research fun.) [/b]
Oo another good suggestion. i was already with the whole “After high school you aint shit” concept, because actually I’m anticipating seeing some people graduate and how they cope with the loss of their precious humorous and childish view in their new life. I tend to think that after high school, everyone is back to start and equal, and the contests start all over again, except differently.
Originally posted by Tenchimaru Draconis
Welcome to the wonderful world of puberty, hormones and peer pressure.
Oh I was already introduced way back. Still feeling the effects of my welcome.
After you graduate, it doesn’t get a whole lot better. Just a little, but not enough. Sorry to crush that optomistic little view people are spreading.
I’d say it just depends on the people or where you live. Maybe a lot of people don’t change, but yourself, and you find your frame of mind less caring and less fragile to what other people think. I don’t know. I’ve had good talks with Dalton and Kagon (my saviors!) and from what I hear life after high school can’t be all complete crap, I mean that’s basically when you’re allowed to become and act like an adult, and you should expect others to do so as well (even if they don’t). I don’t believe HS shit will carry over beyond HS and if it does, well screw it, people should know better.
I find after high school not to be much different. The only difference is the HS Soap Opera crap doesn’t exist; people are equally immature, but treat that immaturity differently.
Maz has it nailed it down pretty well. The only part I disagree with is the necessity to accept the weak and stupid, but I have my own reasons as to why that is and since very few are the people that are like me, I would advise listening to Maz and Kaiser.
HS shit carries over, but it doesn’t carry over as HS shit. It becomes a new kind of shit as the divided groups have to reassemble for the survival of the groups’ former members. That’s the Dead Kennedys song is all about.
In the end, nothing really changes and there are a lot of socio-cultural reasons as to why that is. People are weak, they need to belong, they believe propaganda by individuals established as authority figures by members of a group they wish to belong to and mindlessly move ahead into roles created for them to acquire an illusion of security. Its always been like this and it always will be. I dealt with people by figuring out how they worked and how the system worked and taking advantage of who and what I needed. As was said earlier, few will be the real friends you can count on.