if you are a student, please stay in school...please. it's rough in these streets, homie lol
remember seeing my closest friends graduate and i was both very proud of them and very upset with myself.
i'm academically and quite frankly, generally a dumbass hahaha.
it has been over a decade since but i vaguely remembered my teenage years and it was...dark...gloomy...tough. i purposely tend to forget it.
Dec '24
Jan 1
I was smart enough to not drop out of high school. Dropped out of college though. I remember being so depressed I was just drifting around and getting drunk at a few nearby bars to the college while pretending I'm going to school but I really am skipping classes.
Won't dive deep into my whole reasoning process as it may end up being considered "hate speech" even if I don't have hatred now and can just spit out the cold hard truth.
And I have blurred memories of talking with this old homeless guy that had sage like wisdom. Not even sure if he's a figment of my imagination or an angel or God knows... I know though I was very depressed and constantly drunk during that time.
Anyway, then I showed up and didn't know it was finals on that day. Didn't take the test. Just walked out.
1st semester my grades were like 3.0 (4.0 highest possible).
And 2nd semester when I dropped out... literal nosedive. 
Then was jumping around from dead end job to dead end job for many years. Did fastfood, retail, warehouse, security, janitor, delivery driver, tree cutting and snow removal, limousine driver, etc...
Now I'm a welder-sandblaster and since I've got a wide array of work experience, I can lose my job tomorrow and I'd have a new one within a week lol
Not graduating from school definitely does NOT make you dumb. It's just one specific kind of intelligence. I've never had the opportunity to go to school. period. Grade school or high school. I'm not saying it's fun. If you can get an education definitely do, but don't be rough on yourself if you didn't or couldn't.
Being a high school graduate but a college dropout, not graduating does not mean you don't have a chance of succeeding. Instead change the way you think--a 4-year education isn't for you? That's okay, there are other options, vocational school can help you get a good job and self-teaching can help you figure out where in life you want to go.
Dealt with major depression my whole life and unfortunately, I'm so academically burned out, that I don't think I'll ever go back to school. However, one thing I've never tire of doing is writing and I've always been pretty good at it. So that's what I'll be pursuing while I work 
I was academically above-average (not very social, though), and I did graduate both HS and undergrad - I sure don't think any less of y'all. If anything, parents should help their kids make solid business plans before sending them to a 4-year institution, most are not worth the cost. If I were to do it again, I'd community college the first two years.
It turned out that the non-class things I did during those school years were more important to my career later.
I believe not everyone has a choice for that matter. Some people just are forced to drop out, like their family making that choice for them. It's rough without a diploma, yeah, but it's also equally rough in other aspects of life too with or without the diploma.
But there's alternatives and people only end up homeless in streets because they have no support system. What I would suggest is don't let people make you make bad decisions, it has consequences and you might never recover from it. And this applies to everything even after dropping out of high school.
Personally, after dropping out of high school, I actually want to go to college now. I'm planning my future with the person I love and with their support I realized I love school and I wanna go back. Lol I'm just suffering from insomnia so I don't know how I'm gonna do things but I'll try to work it out somehow.
I dropped out and went to get my GED less drama more help from the teacher smaller social environment regular school is not for everyone but education is still necessary!
But not all parents know how to make solid business plans. Business is ultimately a gamble like a 4 year college course.
Getting ahead in life is ultimately about strategizing your strengths and weaknesses. Like playing a video game knowing your character's stats and how to use them in the most effective way possible. Distribute stat points to strengthen base stats that are already strong is what I've noticed works best.
If your character is a tank, level up armor and health. Pointless to level up attack damage and sorcery
