<p>While reading that, I was nodding thinking, “Man, that sounds just like my school.”
I know how you feel. It’s tough.</p>
<p>2girlzmum is right, that’s really extreme, but I definitely know a few people who have a LOT of stuff, go on nice vacations, have a new car, but their parents don’t have a college fund for them. The person I am thinking about I know very well, their parents make a living pretty close to what mine do and she has $0.00 in savings for higher education, since neither of her parents went. </p>
<p>I guess it’s all about where you place your priorities, and we don’t know what kinds of important things they completely lack. I always looked at my friends and wondered why I couldn’t take horseback riding lessons and own my own horse, or why we didn’t have a snowmobile or a time share in Vail. Oh, now I know! It’s because I have $30,000 a year for college! </p>
<p>It still gets me that there are kids who don’t even have to make sacrifices like that. They don’t know what a sacrifice is. Maybe not having a college fund wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t raised to value that, but it’s amazing to me that so many kids at my school could probably afford to literally set fire to a few hundred dollars. </p>
<p>I guess people like that are there to teach you life lessons. I think there are people in this world who were made to contribute, and people in this world who are just societal pawns that the rest of us have to observe. And through watching a bunch of sixteen year olds abuse their Range Rovers and Audi TT’s, throw raging house parties and destroy their parents things, and treat everything else like it’s disposable, I sure as hell have learned a lot about life and what I don’t want to be…</p>
<p>I feel so much better now that I have found people here that know what’s up. It’s even worse in Cherry Hills Village. I mean, I have friends living in $5 million custom homes behind a gate, but you pretty much live in a castle if you live in Cherry Hills. </p>
<p>Re: Kent Denver School. Private school here is a whole different story, let me tell ya.</p>
<p>Is this meant to be a rant or some sort of justification for your attitude toward them?</p>
<p>You described my life, even to the moving from urban to suburban. It’s weird, but I’ve only lived here since freshman year, so I’ll be out in about a semester! I mean, don’t get me wrong I like most of my peers in general, but sometimes their lives can be ridiculous.</p>
<p>Let’s just say… boredom and wealthy kids are not a good combination</p>
<p>This is definitely a rant about work ethic and suburban white bubble life. </p>
<p>I don’t mean to make it come across as if I hate all of my classmates. My closest friends all have grown up the way I have for the most part, so it’s not hard to find. The instances in which this does happen I definitely notice much more because I happen to have an opinion about it. </p>
<p>I think my relief definitely comes more from realizing that all of these kids who hazed me throughout high school for essentially living like the average American lives is totally backwards. </p>
<p>And yeah boredom and money… mmm.</p>