Life in reverse
Do you ever think about how your younger years would be different if you knew then what you know now? I spent so much of my high school years full of anxiety about what others would think of me and trying not to cause too much of a ruckus. Looking back, I wish I gave less fucks. Those people whose opinions mattered so much back then are completely irrelevant to my life now. I was the girl who got top grades, was pretty enough, didn't do drugs, didn't hook up with boys, but I drank occasionally at parties. I was sort of mid-tier. I didn't belong to any one clique, but I had friends across a variety of groups. I was definitely not "popular", but I wasn't a "loser" either. Anyways, one night at a party I had a few drinks and got chatting with one of the popular guys (who also happened to be wealthy which wasn't why he was popular, but wealth and popularity tend to go hand-in-hand don't they?). So here we are chatting by a fire, and he leans in ...