I don't cease to be amazed about what happens to people I know from way back in the past. I've known them, I've spent time with them and suddenly ten years later they're something completely different.
There's this one guy who is now a campaign manager for one of the Netherlands' most prominent politicians; back in high school there wasn't a single person in the entire year who was sent out of class more than he was. Of course now his demeanor comes in handy in his work and current role. And it just doesn't end with this: people who were the biggest party animals in high school (middle school even) got married and now have 2.4 kids. They are homemakers now. In the past ten years we've seen people turning to religion, who were not religious in the first place; turning away from religion when they very much so initially; guys who were dead set to move out of the country only to come back again, tail between legs and all.
Which comes to show: everybody in our generation is going through the same waves and each of us has to deal with the same question how to make sense of life after - in casu - high school. That may or may not have to do with how anyone has presented him- or herself in the past.
For a lot of people - myself included - life pretty much gave them what they asked for and invested in (...so far). But the others mentioned before changed course, backtracked and did something else, which we of greater distance would call strangely out-of-character.
And that doesn't make sense, because it does make perfect sense to them. I guess everyone has the natural reaction to be surprised by something unexpected.
This is of course speaking from the perspective from someone who has stayed doggedly on course since kindergarten.
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