08/10/2025
The Al Bundy ex-high school football star syndrome. Bruce Springstein’s hit song “Glory Days”. I’m not one of those people, but I would imagine many of them move onto other groups after school and become popular people in those groups. Regardless, if you want a better existence you have to keep moving forward, keep trying to grow, keep trying to create new stuff in your life.
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How do former popular kids teens successfully manage the relative obscurity common to adult life? To me, there's something truly depressing about folks in their 50s talking about life as a child as if after that, everything that defined them stopped.
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