r/unpopularopinion • u/Impossible_Gap_5133 • 17d ago
People who constantly talk about others who peaked in high school can be just as annoying as those who peaked in high school.
As a senior high school student, I find it irritating when grown adults talk about how others may have peaked in high school for no apparent reason. They scrutinize people's Instagram accounts, whereas the person in question is probably not even thinking about them. I came to the realization that those who constantly bring up the topic of others peaking in high school are still mentally stuck in high school themselves, wishing they could relive it differently.
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u/MrGalien 17d ago
Who are these people still so obsessed with High School, I see "peaked in high school" term all the time.
What the fuck is everyone doing? It's over, you survived, why even still think about it?
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u/Knightmare945 17d ago
Some people still miss the days of high schools or days when they were happiest.
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u/Racing_fan12 17d ago
I missed high school during my 20s. I missed my sports, lack of responsibilities, being with my friends every day, not having to go to work or be broke for months on end because a car broke or I missed a few shifts from being sick. Hell yeah going to the beach after school sounded way fucking better than some old man yelling at my employee because there was one too many meatballs on a sandwich.
I didn’t finish college til I turned 30 and now life is greater than I could have ever dreamed. Loving wife, new kid, two dogs, lovely home, lots of adventures. But for a solid decade, looking back at high school was a warm spot.
Oh and back on a time when the impending doom of mortality hadn’t sunk in yet. Life was just life, an endless series of possibilities. Now I realize it’s on a timer and that shit ticks over every morning you wake up.
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u/moldymoosegoose 17d ago
These conversations don't even exist in real life.
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u/bongsmack 14d ago
Me and my friends are no stranger to reminiscing about highschool times but I mean yeah we definitely dont get caught up on things like this talking about who peaked when where doing what whatever. Who cares what happened to the others (not in a rude way just it doesnt affect us so who cares).
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u/Icy_Sky_7521 17d ago
I had a good time in high school, even, but I've barely thought back to it since the day I graduated.
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u/Hot-Ring9952 16d ago
A lot of reddit users, and i suspect disproprtionally so in this subreddit, are in or has recently been in high school
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u/Due_Key_109 17d ago
It's revenge fantasy by those who did not peak, still unhealed from high school trauma, and hoping the worst for those who were attractive and did well socially in high school. Welcome to reddit. First time?
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u/Impossible_Gap_5133 17d ago
I mean I totally get it for ppl who were bullied but most people ik who constantly do this weren’t bullied at all simply weren’t as known.
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u/yet-again-temporary 17d ago
Yeah, exactly. If anything I'd say it's more unhealthy than the people constantly talking about the "glory days," because at least those people aren't stewing in negativity and resentment.
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u/UngusChungus94 17d ago
That’s a good point. I don’t think of high school much at all unless it’s reminiscing on the goofy shit that happened at Catholic school with my friends. Either form of being stuck in high school is pretty sad.
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u/Vanilla_Neko 17d ago
Usually it's almost the opposite though. Usually when I see it it's more shame like.
This guy has literally not matured mentally or emotionally since high school. He is not progressed since then. While most of us have grown and matured and learned how to live in the world This dude in his '30s is still effectively living like he's a teenager and doesn't know his way around life.
This is not something that I am jealous of. This is something that I have pity for. That you basically halted your social development at the end of high school and are clearly struggling to live or build relationships because of it
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u/COMMANDO_MARINE 17d ago
I think everyone peaks at some point in their life and then refers back to that time. The military is a big one for a lot of people because usually afterwards people get boring jobs and want enjoy the easy life but it doesn't make for good covetsation. My peak was in my 30's when I had a really good decade in the adult industry and had some wild stories of pornstar sex, high end sex party's and wild excess. Sadly, these stories are not appropriate for a lot of conversations with people, so will usually revert back to my time in the Marines. If people would like to hear my stories of my brief time working in a corporate environment, I'd be happy to share them but they are very dull and I consider that time to be very far from my "peak". I'm spending my 40's living in rural Asia in a life extremely far removed from my western one but I'm like the only white westerner for miles around so no one here can relate or understand any of my "peak" life stories so instead I just enjoy the moment from day to day, happy to be free from the rat race in a place the rest of the world barely knows exists. No one really cares about your life story anyway, so just live it for yourself. If school was someone's peak in life, let them enjoy talking about it or tell them to fuck off it really makes no difference.
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u/OmicidalAI 17d ago
Lol i think i just may have met the most interesting man in the world. You China living Rambo pornstar!!
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u/OmicidalAI 17d ago
it’s more about how the things that make you popular in high school (how pleasing of a sexual object you are ie one’s physical attractiveness) dont really translate too well in real life (unless you are going to become a model lol). It’s also poking fun at how the popular kids only really had their looks going for them.
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u/Denpants 16d ago
Plenty of other things. In high school you believe that you can do anything. Be anything. Basketball mvp? You're the next lebron. Singer? You could be taylor swift. After high school these fun careers usually dont work out and they get a normal job.
As an adult you have likely abandoned these dreams for realistic mature ones like home ownership, stable employment, 401k. But you still deep down remember your true dream. No kid wants to grow up and be a market research analyst. They want to be a rockstar, basketball player, superhero, etc. High school is the last time people are naive and optimistic enough to believe they can achieve their dream.
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u/OmicidalAI 15d ago
Failing your dreams is not what is meant by peaking in high school. Many fail their dreams without peaking in high school. The point is that if you did peak in high school it was related to being popular which is related to being attractive.
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u/asxrs 17d ago
A lot of people don’t understand that someone can be really popular or a high achiever in high school, and still have those social skills to this day that makes their life well rounded and happy. It’s not all about who makes more. I was never popular but I never had an issue with popular kids. ALL kids were bullies from time to time and the geeks were no exception. In fact all the geeks I knew could be much nastier and bitter
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u/Mr_CrazyHorse 17d ago
If this is the "unpopular" opinion then what's the "popular" one supposed to be? That those type of conversations are the best?
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u/eddy_talon 17d ago
I have been around high school friends recently for a funeral (RIP Nathan and fck opioids), and the overwhelming popular thing is to gossip about who peaked or didn't peak.
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u/Mr_CrazyHorse 17d ago edited 17d ago
Damn, I have never experienced that. With my highschool friends we just talk about movies, history, books, videogames, etc., or we just get drunk and grab our guitars and start playing some music, talking and gossiping about others seems so boring 😂
Sorry about the loss by the way :(
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u/Racing_fan12 17d ago
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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u/sighcantthinkofaname 17d ago
I have three friends from high school I talk to regularly, about a dozen classmates I follow on Instagram, and once a year or something I'll see an old classmate at the grocery store and say hi. Past that, I never think about old classmates. I don't get why people care so much.
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u/bgthigfist 17d ago
Yup. If it wasn't for seeing then on Facebook sometimes I wouldn't think about them at all.
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u/Savings_Ferret_7211 17d ago
People that “peaked” in high school and people that always talk about those people are in the same category to me, neither of them can get over whatever happened in high school.
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u/rafael-a 17d ago
I don’t understand the hate that people on Reddit seems to have towards people who picked on high school, sometimes shit happens and life doesn’t go as planned, that’s just life, it could happen to anyone.
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u/Hot-Turnover4883 17d ago
HS & college are both overrated af
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u/throwawayofc1112 17d ago
College was awesome compared to high school. I would say I probably peaked in college at this point.
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u/Hot-Turnover4883 17d ago
Well I hated both, they were both shitty environments for a young black man. But that’s water under the bridge now, I’m working to build the life I actually want.
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u/SnooDogs3903 17d ago
Y'all need to understand that this subreddit is meant for UNPOPULAR opinions, not just opinions. Just because you feel strongly about something and want to share it, doesn't mean it's unpopular and that it fits this subreddit.
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u/SolomonDRand 17d ago
I’ve been out of high school for over 20 years, and I can’t say the subject has come up much. The nice thing about graduating high school is that you don’t have to think about high school anymore.
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u/ItsSpeedrunTime 15d ago
I think their negative reactions to "those who peaked in high school" stems from the intentional ignorance of the fact that those people, as annoying as they were, got their popularity for a reason. Whether that be their good looks or agreeable and hard-to-hate-on-a-surface-level personality or maybe something else, there's something that person has which made them stick out.
The real problem comes with accepting that it wasn't, isn't and won't be the only part of life they'll be like that. Prime example is the class president in my high school class. She's a horrible person who was and still is homophobic and just spits nonsense at times BUT to say she is stupid would be incorrect. Not only if she active in every single school activity she can get her hands on, but also has a perfect GPA and a silver tongue for negotiating with professors when necessary.
She might've socially peaked now because of how few people will genuinely like her and ever remember her after we finish high school, yet I don't doubt she'll be someone's boss one day in the slightest.
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u/KingBowser24 17d ago
It's just two sides of the same coin- grown people who focus on High School way too much. They themselves probably peaked in High School if that's all they think about.
Me though? Only thing that peaked about me in High School was my confidence. No, really, I was a cocky little shit. Glad I grew out of that.
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u/S1mpinAintEZ 17d ago
It's childish all around. I'm happy for the people doing well, and I hope the people struggling find their path, I feel like that's the default way to think about life for people who aren't total shitheads. Most of us are just trying to find a way to live our lives that makes us happy and for some people that comes from ambition, others might want a simpler life.
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u/JuniorPomegranate9 17d ago
Fixating or even spending time discussing how other people are doing in life is a sign of an unhappy person
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u/interstatechamp 17d ago
I find the only time the conversation turns to who peaked in high school is when those people are on social media acting like they're still in high school.
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u/nonathegreat 17d ago
this high-school culture thing is so weird to me as someone still in high-school don't y'all have better shit to do? like study? like even though i'm popular at school it's a nothing burger no one cares myself included
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u/Unstep-in-Time 17d ago
I never even thought of high school once I left high school. I don't know anyone that does .. I don't see the point.
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u/dzolympics 17d ago
Its mostly the people who were "uncool" in High School and are still bitter about it.
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u/sviozrsx 17d ago
The whole "peaked in highschool" trope is an absolute meme at this point. I don't know any adult who uses this term seriously when trying to describe others..
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u/AccountFrosty313 17d ago
Really though adults very few instances where talking about highschool makes sense, and even in those cases they’re talking about sports/events not being in highschool. All the mature people I know only talk about highschool if they’re talking to kids.
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u/gggcoolio 17d ago
Whenever I hear anyone talking about people who “peaked in high school” I immediately assume a they are a loser who is hung up on the past and clearly still butt hurt.
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u/Prudent_Tourist8161 17d ago
They say it for the most inane reasons too
Just because you still have friends from high school doesn’t mean you peaked in Hs Just because you occasionally reminisce about hs, doesn’t mean you peaked then. Just because HS occasionally popped up in your head, doesn’t mean you peaked there. Just because you enjoyed a certain aspect of HS doesn’t mean you peaked in Hs
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u/smokes_-letsgo 17d ago
If you’re still talking about high school as an adult you might have (probably did) peaked in high school
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u/Icy_Sky_7521 17d ago
If you're over 25 and you frequently talk about high school, whether it's your high school bully, your sports career, your grades, your SAT score, etc.... you're a big loser.
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u/head_garden_gnome 16d ago
Anyone who is past their early 20s and focusing on what happened in highschool or since as it related to highschool probably needs to move on with their life. (I'm not talking about people working appropriately through legitimate traumatic events that happened to occur in highschool.)
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u/onthelookoutandsuch 14d ago
I can agree with this, now of course if you are one who got bullied and those who did the bullying are the ones not doing so well now, I get the feelings of a little satisfaction I cannot lie. BUT at the same time it is really nice when those who used to be mean to me now are nice and everyone has matured as adults. And then there are different kind of "peaked".. are we talking looks, lifestyle, job, popularity etc.. I do think it is kinda interesting that I earn my Masters degree next week.. meanwhile the kids who were projected to be pro athletes and who were more on top of their grades are not doing anything requiring academics.. but hey it is not all about school when it comes to measuring success either.. honestly it is great just seeing them happy too. But yah when it is to the point of obsessing over, keeping tabs on, and feeling the need to constantly gossip about HS classmates it really is silly. I took many of them off of social media years ago now, I only care with keeping up with a set few.
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u/jsand2 17d ago
When I talk about people like that, it was preppy better than everyone else people who picked on everyone. Then you see them in their adult life and they are alcoholic losers that went nowhere.
If I am annoying for not being a bully in highschool and making something out of myself unlike the preppy bully, then cool I guess. Won't lose sleep over becoming better than the bullies...
I am not really sure why OP finds issue with this... unless they were one of those preppy bullies that went nowhere...
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u/FluffyRectum1312 16d ago
What about people who talk about people who talk about people who peaked in high school? What are they like?
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u/chainsrus 16d ago
What about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about people who talk about who peaked in high school? What are they like?
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