Do the popular people who peak in high school fail in life? Any stories?

[Slient_Love]

Okay. I'm just wondering about this situation because it feels like every time I go on facebook and twitter it seems that the popular girls from middle school are still very much popular. I remember people telling me who were older than me that in high school it wouldn't matter, and that was pretty much a lie. Because I wasn't popular, I was on the bottom and would get jokes made out of me. People told me that I annoyed them(not to my face of course) only because I would never change my looks or the way I acted.
I'm just wondering "Do the popular girls who have nasty attitudes" every fall off or do they keep going and become successful in life? But the thing is all they do is copy off of homework, cheat, and do drugs or claim they do drugs and have sex. Most of the nasty ones either have tattoo or a nose ring.

But for the other popular girls which are the very few and rare nice ones, "one of them" were actually my friend. She's actually a model. Will people like her be successful in life? I mean I remember all the time in Middle School she would get straight A's and she would always be on some type of new diet plan. Then, when high school hit she looked absolutely beautiful and were still making the grades, but was just having a hard time keeping up because she had so many auditions to go to. But her attitude was still nice and true unlike the others.

Then there's me. The one that kind of changed, but still haven't changed yet. I still don't talk to a lot of people, and I'm still at the bottom kind of. But no one teases me or anything like that at all. Except when I try to talk to one of my friends on face book or twitter than the mean girls come in who used to pick on me in the 9th grade. I'm into a lot of different stuff like I play the piano, love to write songs/stories/poetry. I get good grades, and my G.P.A. is going back up

What really happens to us after high school?
I already seen what happened to my cousin and she was the popular nasty one in high school. Things didn't work out to well for her and she's struggling.
Why do they say the one's who peak in high school are the ones who fail later in life? Is this true or no?
Oh and just so you know I'm 17 and is a Junior in high school. I know I shouldn't worry about this but I keep having bad flashbacks about getting teased a lot in school. Even in elementary I was picked on since, I got there and it only stopped a little.

[Rod Kimble_09]

Not always but sometimes yes.

[john]

man i don care about no high school every body hate me and i don like no one. my school don like me either. my plan in life as to be a farmer hermit living deep in the woods. i don no if you consider that sucesful.

[Amateuridea786]

people do change and grow up. I think future success depends on how much people have changed and grown up. I am in college and ran into a girl was a girl who was a right bi*ch to me in high school- we had dinner a couple weeks ago. I don't see us being best friends by any means but she has grown up a lot and so have I.

[Ticklish]

Absolutely not! The good news is that they turn out to be the most productive, intelligent, beautiful, and outstanding members of society! In fact, as a self proclaimed omniexpert, I recommend that you change who you are to be more like them. Start by sleeping with your teachers. All of them. This will gain your acceptance amongst your superiors, which you will find is very important in life.

[Jollyacoustics549]

My mom said when she went to her high school reunion all the popular boys were bald and fat. and divorced. The girls were still loud drunks though...

[punchie]

Silent L.-I get where you are coming from. I've been out of high school for many years now. Let's just say I went to high school when Michael Jackson was singing "Billie Jean". At any rate, I've seen alot of things happen to people...some good, some bad, some radical and some sad. I've seen some popular kids from back in the day ...fall from grace. Some passed away from drinking. Some died from natural causes. And on the other hand, some of those very same kids did really well...they developed successful careers. And then there were the "late bloomers"...there were those kids like my sister who were sweet, nice had a few friends here and there continue to be sweet, nice, bloom into good looks but remain the same nice person. I've watch some of my "geek" friends...continue to bloom...there is no denying that all of this technology we have today is all because of them...not necessarily the popular "kids". Truly, in the end all that I think that matters in life...is what YOU do in life...not what someone else does. IF you start living your life under the guise of "awaiting other people's fall from grace"...you will have missed the point of life and living all together. If you wait in the shadows for other people to make asses of themselves, you will have wasted alot of time when you could've been out in the sun and fresh air. All I can say is this...the people that you are wasting your time on...don't wake up every morning thinking about you and your opinion...so, why should you expend anymore of your precious time & energy worrying and wondering about them and their lives...and how they chose to be with other people...kind or unkind.
My simple advice...try to do your best to start with a clean slate...yes, there probably is some residual pain of how people treat/treated you in the past. This is the time to do what you can to harness that pain and use it constructively. You love to play piano, write songs/stories & poetry. Well, if that isn't some of the best therapy right there. I'm a singer/songwriter...and pain has been a calalyst of my writing on many of my songs...but also there has been joy or many other emotions that came into play. One thing about high school...it is over when it's over...if YOU choose to "toil" in that environment that proved to be very toxic at times...then that continuance is on YOU. After high school, I pretty much went on my own...sure I still keep in touch with a few friends...but very few. And this comes from someone who was once considered "popular". I was like the Ferris Bueller kid who could make friends with just about any group. But, I just wanted a new life...free of expectation...b.s....a place where I could just be me...and that place I found was called, "My life".
Good luck to you. You will find your place too. Trust me...I know this to be true.

[Kristen]

Popularity in school really doesn't matter. Once people leave they mature and grow up and learn that life isn't about popularity, who's the prettiest or has the most 'friends', you will make real friends and realise that you should NEVER worry about what other people think of you. Be yourself, I live in England so we don't have middle school, junior high, seniors and all that. I left high school aged 16 and went to college. I was bullied all through primary school (elementary school) and for the first few years of high school which i guess would be your middle school. I tried to be 'cool' and do what everyone else did, until i realised it wasn't working, so then i decided I don't give a shit anymore, so i'll be myself, I got so much more confidence, stuck with my real friends, and by time i was 15, was friends with everybody, no matter whether they were popular or not. By college we were all a lot more mature and nicer. I am now 21, have a great job and about 95% of the 'popular' people from my year have babies/children and still live with their parents, another 4% are either jobless, working in a bar or similar, which leaves a 1% success rate for them.

The moral of this story is, in a few years time, you will go on to do whatever you choose, and if you keep positive and put your mind to it you WILL succeed in whatever you want to do, and you will go on facebook and look all the bullies up, to see that they are still all friends, stuck in the past and not many will be successful no.

Be true to who you are it is so important. Real friends and family are all that count.