And such a sad sentiment too. I think about high school days... almost never?

And I enjoyed them at the time. What's the saying, "If high school was the best time of your life, you've wasted your life?"

What an article of pointless sentiments. I would have probably gone to parties with cute popular kids in high school, but I hardly care about such things now. I throw far better parties, and know far cuter people now...

How lovely for you. Now: the thrust of the piece is that for many, the status you assign yourself (and have assigned for you) in adolescence persists through adulthood.

I was two pages in before I called it quits.

There's a useful idea toward the end: How a "box of strangers" tends to have cause the same social stress as a typical high school. Think of large companies, legislative bodies, or any other place where you're forced to deal with a large group of strangers.