You know how in high school movies the outcasts become the most popular people by the end? The girl always gets the boy she has been dreaming of? The popular people go into demise? Well, I can tell you right now that as an outcast, high school will never ever work like that. Life isn't something that can be scripted.

High school was not a shining moment for most of us. We had to wake up every day telling ourselves that it is not that bad, when sometimes it just was. We had to get up before the crack of dawn and shuffle into cramped buses to be taken to an institution that gave us little choice of what we could do with our time. Getting up super early, in a building with peers (in which not all of them like you) and feeling like you are trapped for 8 hours.

Geometry? Algebra? Chemistry? Those are some classes you may never need for life skills (unless you go into that field). What about a home economics class? Finance classes? There aren't classes in high school that teach us all we need to do going into the real world. Some schools do, but most of them are electives, not required. It would have been nice to have those classes to prepare us for the real world.

What sucked even more was the bullying. Not being the most popular kid and having your own unique style and personality meant that some people may have bullied you. You could have been an outsider, so you were bullied. What is even worse is when you go to your principal or teachers and they do very little to resolve the problems you may have been facing.

Speaking of bullies, you were probably surrounded by all sorts of fake people in school. People who pretended to like you one minute, and stabbed you in the back the next. The problem with people in high school is that people are extremely immature. Young teenagers' brains are just not developed enough in order to maintain a higher sense of maturity and respect. This will all change in college, though, where most people seem to have some grasp on being a mature, level-headed adult.

While some people may be fake, you always had those good friends that you held onto for four years. Those people were your rock and got you through that long and hard journey; but once it stops, some of your friends will go their separate ways. You may not talk anymore, and that is okay. The ones who stay are the ones who are your true friends for life.

So yeah, high school sucks for many reasons, but you know what? those four years hardly even matter. All that matters is that you get your diploma. After that, you have the whole world to explore. If you are still in high school and reading this, and you find that you are barely holding on to a single thread of hope, hold on. Life gets so much better after high school. If you can survive high school, you can survive anything.