I know everyone thinks highschool doesn’t really matter friendship wise, but a lot of the time I feel uncomfortable with my friends. I’m interested in medieval art, classic literature, and contemporary art while they know nothing about anything on those particular subjects and certainly would never accompany me to an art exhibition or look at my art pieces and give me honest, profound feedback instead of just saying, “oh how nice!” and veer off topic to gossip. We have nothing in common and a lot of the time this upsets me because I’m like a foreign person to them. They misinterpret me on a daily basis and get impatient when I try and talk about art or literature. Most of them don’t even read for leisure purposes. I feel like I’m a different species because they don’t understand me at all and don’t try to…
Is that totally normal? I’m I just being picky and weird? I know there are actually people in my school who share interests with me but I don’t really approach me because none of my friends are affiliated with them and they’re part of a whole different group…
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Should I Have Different Friends?
Posted on September 28, 2010.
i think you should just look for someone that shares the same intrests as you, you’ll always find someone, but always remember friends are basically another image of you in peoples eyes
what i mean by that is, if u hang out with popular kids, people will see u as popular, if u hang out with bad kids people will see u as bad, and vise versa
it always is good to have different friends just remember stay with ones that like to have fun like go to movies or stuff like that
These are not friends. They are acquaintances of convenience. At worst, hang in there until you get to college where your major will be full of people who share the same interests as you and all the knuckleheads will have opted out into jobs that are suited for their skill levels which are different from yours.
In the meantime, are there interest groups in your community that have common forms of expression with you? You aren’t stuck in HS except to take the courses that will lead you to college. I was a professional actor in HS and after school was my time to shine. I looked forward to reviews in the newspapers while my fellow students were worried about reviews from the teachers and opinions of their classmates. Oh, and I kept my grades up too because I knew i would be going to college. I had a peer group that was from else else in common.
HS friendships are highly overrated AFTER you graduate, but it can be desperately lonely while you are there with people whose interests are nothing like yours.
Best of luck.