damn depressing thread...i hated highschool
in early highschool i was a fat smart kid who was very lazy but was very amiable...i said hi to everyone and anyone, chatted with girls mostly (who looked at me as a 'friend' ....F%$#!!) and as a result was loathed by a bunch of guys who had no social skills, and thought it would be funny to pick on the fat, unaggressive kid who was chatting up (but doing nothing with) the girls of the school. this ruined my amiability...it made me feel insecure, unliked, and vaguely hunted...i remember not being able to understand why people would be so nasty to someone who was so nice to everyone
fast forward to late high school, where i had been hitting the gym heavily, was in great condition comapared to the other guys, and had made it clear that i would imitate hannibal lecter if any of those sods even looked at me funny (i gave one prominent guy a rather pointed lesson by turning up to his home to call him out on something...he didnt meet my eyes for a couple years after that). i forgive, but i sure as hell dont forget. i was a studying and training machine...thats all i really did...straight as an arrow...my grades went from Cs in early high school, to Bs in mid high school, and i ended up finishing with straight A+s in the top 1 percent nationally.
so in a classic underdog maneuver, i went from fat and ordinary to totally outclassing the pricks who made my life difficult, and managed to snare one of the hottest girls in the school (YES!!), moving interstate for uni, and kind of being a shining example mothers used of how to do things (the reality was quite ordinary though

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biggest mistake of my life after that was making people believe i was ordinary. i knew i could totally destroy most of my peers academically, physically, or socially, but i was always realy laid back, didnt 'sell myself' so to speak, and let people believe i was less than i was. too many disney movies i suppose. so, as truly stupid people are wont to do, they believed what their eyes told them, and thought i really was ordinary, which made life difficult later on. i realised this a few months back that being clark kent wouldnt get me as far as being superman, and so have stepped up my game.
yeesh i just reread this and i sound like i love myself...i dont, i just learned that being a good guy doesnt get you what you deserve in life...if you want something good, you have to work for it, and that includes presenting yourself properly. people dont reward goodness and decency, and i was fucking sick of being the nice guy who finished last. so i took steps. it worked.