I realized before ever getting out of high school that High School never ends just by looking at the people in my town that had graduated the year before or 50 years before.
They were mostly the same people with the same issues that never ever forgot their high school experiences with each other. It was as if they had happened last week instead of 30 years before.
Nope. Wasn’t what I wanted in life. Not who I wanted to become.
I ran into the same stuff after playing Navy for 4 and for some reason of temporary insanity joined the Army NG of my hometown.
It was just like HS again. The unit was going to get decommed and they let go back to the Naval Reserve.