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October 31, 2021,
Looking down the highway, peeking around the corner or gazing over the hill, it is sobering, depressing and deeply sad when this occurs.
Your best days are behind you.
The intriguing aspect to it is, even though you try not to think about it, you cannot escape the fog of what’s coming.
Not the evaporating mist of the past but the steady rainfall called the future.
High school movies are just as popular with adults as they are with teens. Why? Because for many of us, high school was the most significant experience of our life.
Why? For various reasons that could alter per individual. How do we count the ways?
When will you ever be around a massive group of beautiful young people, many of which you’ve known since elementary school again?
Never.
You’ve watched some of them evolve and grow up to be high school stars, in the hallways, on the cheer squad or on the football field, complete with sideline reporters.
You’ve seen them walk down your neighborhood streets or back in the day, at the mall or driving down the street in their cool sports car.
Popularity never came to me, you say?
Well, maybe not in many ways, but even if in a few ways, you know what?
You’re fortunate.
Why?
If you were extremely popular in high school, especially in a smaller town, after graduation, where do you go from there?
Heaven forbid, especially if you were the quarterback who set high school records but weren’t tall or talented enough to play at the collegiate level and studying was not your strength since most of that time was spent partying with one gorgeous girl after another.
Then you graduate.
In a smaller town where everyone knows you and your parents didn’t have the money to pay for college.
Talk about depression.
Time for a history lesson.
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1966 novel The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry.
The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, and Cybill Shepherd.
Set in a small town in north Texas from November 1951 to October 1952, it is a story of two high-school seniors and long-time friends, Sonny Crawford (Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Bridges).
The Last Picture Show was theatrically released on October 22, 1971, by Columbia Pictures.
It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $29 million on a $1.3 million budget, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Johnson and Bridges, and Best Supporting Actress for Burstyn and Leachman, with Johnson and Leachman winning.
See what we mean.
It touched a nerve. It penetrated the heart. It made us sad. Melancholy.
It was the film that most of us will remember the brilliant career of Cybill Shepherd by. She was such a beautiful small town princess that all the boys were crazy about her.
For the present. In the future?
What do you do? Where do you go from there? What do you do when your time at the top of the youthful mountain is gone?
You need to leave. Get out of town.
That’s what you do.
Start over. Where no one knows you.
Not only does the end come for the star football player but it also happens to the most beautiful popular girls too.
Most girls will go to college, so that’s something. Still, you will become one beautiful girl in a sea of beautiful girls. Few will become the queen of the college.
The worst case scenario is the beautiful child actor who, once popular world over, who can no longer get parts. There is no small town to leave because the world is your small town.
So when you are on top of the teenage world and you see the end coming, what should you do in the present?
Enjoy and cherish every moment.
Take lots of pictures.
Be the best person you can be because you won’t get a chance to clean up youthful mean behavior and mistakes.
We have a person in our circle who experienced that right after high school where he was a waiter at a fantastic teenage hang out restaurant. Groups of beautiful high school girls were coming there all of the time. They would be seated in his section.
Yes, he was their waiter. What a coincidence. What a break. Why?
Because he orchestrated it.
Like a dance club.
If he saw girls that he liked in that long waiting line, he would quietly walk over to the manager and like an elite dance club, have the gorgeous girls pulled out of line and sat in his section.
He had that kind of teenage juice.
For two years, with a beautiful sports, a great workout body and money to burn, he got every sexy girl he wanted. The dates, the dance clubs the dinners by the fireplace.
The romance in the dark.
And, in the few months before he was about to leave for college, the mist of the present began to evaporate.
Looking down the highway, peeking around the corner or gazing over the hill, it is sobering, depressing and deeply sad when he looked into his future of becoming ordinary again.
So our associate still loves to watch teen moves. About the winners.
Alone. In the dark.
No doubt Tony Manero, John Travolta’s character, felt that like hardening cement, in the all-time classic Saturday Night Fever, about being young and temporarily on top of the world.
With the end in sight.
When it is over, how do you come to terms with that?
Yes, re-invent yourself.
Yes. Move away.
Still, the emotional weight of who you once were can become heavy.
So that is why so many of us like to watch teen movies and relive the past. Especially, if for a window of time, we were on top.
If you are a teenager now and on top of the world?
Take a ton of pictures and put them away in a safe place. To be viewed years down the road. In the future.
Not the present, otherwise you will stay stuck in the past.
In the present, cherish every single day and night, like it was the last of your life, because in a way it is, the last of your youthful queen or king of the mountain life.
Yes, you will find success as an adult and have children of your own on day and then you will want to re-live it with them.
And then after they grow up, leave and have their own families, you wait for the grandchildren.
That is in the future.
For now, you watch teen movies, about popular teens on top of the youthful mountain and in the privacy of your thoughts, re-live your past.
You are only young and teen popular once.
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