So... this semester, I'm usually out of class by three PM... which is also when a lot of schools along W. 49th Ave./ W.41st Ave. get out, too.
For the first few minutes of my bus ride, I get to enjoy almost complete silence on the bus, which is filled with other UBC students, too. I put my iPod on and open my textbook or stare out the window. It's nice. It's almost relaxing. But then, once the bus gets to the stops near Magee, or Crofton House, or whatever other school it is that is along the bus route, the bus becomes loaded with sweaty, hormonal teenagers and the atmosphere on the bus changes in an instant. I realized, today, that a lot of these high-school chicks irritate the hell out of me. They load the bus in huge groups, talking loudly amongst themselves, gossiping about the bitches that they hate, complaining about their own facial features, complaining about school, complaining about parents, complaining about boys, complaining about everything... they complain a lot. Not even the music playing in my ears can drown out their voices.
So, I texted Belle, today, mid-bus ride and asked said, "High-school girls on the bus are really annoying. Were we like that?!?!"
Are we getting old or something? They all seem so obnoxious and egoistic to me. As if they have life all figured out. I'm not saying that I have everything figured out, but when I see them walking around with each other in groups, joking around, I think to myself about how they are all so naive. They act as if life is always going to be the same way, that they're always going to be BFF... but oooh, how it changes. When I was in the ninth grade, someone told me that I'll never know who my real friends are until after high-school, and it's so true. After graduation, a lot of people don't feel the need to suck up to people they never really liked in high-school. It's probably especially true about the school that I came from. There were a hundred kids in each grade, so there wasn't really much room to be picky about your friends. I think that a lot of people at St. Pat's were fake-friends because being a loner at such a small school is wayyyy more painful than being a loner at a big school. Kind of sad.
Anyway, I totally went off topic. Everything that I've experienced in the past year has been way more life-changing than anything that I went through in high-school.
I think that I've definitely grown up.
