High School Days (page 4)

Dimples

I was REALLY annoyed w/ not getting to go to Grad Night.

Luna,

No Grad Nite? Gee, that sucks! Grad nite was a blast. I had so much fun. Witnesses mess it up for so many of these teens. Makes me so mad!

Dimples

luna

I've broken loose....but I still can be Sweet.

hehe.

Since I was raised in the JW, by the time I reached high school, my "theocratic" life was in full swing. Leaving school a little early to go out in service was alway my idea of fun ( boring kid) . There was a social life with other young people in the congregation and I thought I was having fun. Not really, it was a very BORING existence. When I accounced to my Elder Dad that I was quiting school to pioneer, ( because armegedon was coming in 1975 ) he very wisely said NO, and made me graduate. Dad was one of the smarter elders. I missed out on all the typical High school fun things you mentioned, mainly, because I was so insulated from the students at the school. And they were wordly and good little JWs stay away from the world.

After graduatiing high school I did become a pioneer ( more boring stories) and a ministerial servant and was being groomed to be an elder ( bigger boring stuff). I left the JWs at 21 to enter college and never looked back or regretted. College was more fun . And I made up for all the lost time.....( use your imagination on that one!)

regards,

Frank

flower

High School was Hell...what more can ya say.? I wish I could do it all over again as a normal teenager instead of a freak (jw). At least my kid will get to experience all that I didnt (everything)

flower

Gopher

"High school was hell." Well there were a few people who were nice to me in spite of my "differences", and thank goodness for their friendship. I didn't preach much about JW's while in school, but I didn't do the "double life" thing either. I was kind of in-between-worlds.

Proms? School dances? I didn't even know when they happened, I paid so little attention to them.

But my parents were somewhat liberal, so I got to attend all the high school sports games I wanted. Well, I was the sports editor on the school newspaper, so I was only doing my "job".

Also I was able to spend time after school (on non-meeting nights) with my non-Witness friends. My parents said it was because there wasn't much "good association" among the kids in our hall.

I also participated in the induction ceremony into National Honors Society, and attended the graduation exercises. Both times I really didn't feel like a JW, but I liked it.

But hearing the words from that kingdumb song "but to be popular never do toil, for bad companions good habits will spoil" kept me from following through on any desire to be more like the other kids.

Thank goodness my kids won't have that same pressure to be "different" because a weird religion says they have to.

High School Days

Dimples

luna

franklin J

flower

Gopher

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