Loosen up a bit, and go have a good time. If you think of it as stupid and that you won't enjoy it, you can only prove yourself right. You don't have to love high school, but you can at least make the most of it while you're there. You really don't gain anything by not endorsing or acknowledging it. Your experience can only be as good as you let it be. Discounting it by lowering your expectations and allowances will only result in your denying yourself a potentially wonderful evening. What have you got to lose?
Anyway, going to your prom doesn't necessarily make you an uncreative conformist. It just makes you glad when it's all over that you don't have to do any of that high school crap ever again, and that in itself is worth something.
For about a month before the prom, I listened to some of the others (mostly girls) talk about it. They were neurotic messes, but they were happy neurotic messes. The monday after the prom, they were all bitching about it.
As far as I'm concerned, prom is a big celebration for the in-crowd, and it's more like a wake. They're celebrating because this is the last chance they're going to have to live off their baseless popularity and cults of personality. When it became such a big deal, the less popular people started going too.
Personally, I resented the fact that even one dime of tax money went into funding it.
I had a graduating class of about 650. The high-and-mighty popular people from the class haven't done that well. Examples:
Of the 15 or so people I can respect:
With the exception of that one girl, I guess it's another example of how the "losers" in high school (i.e. the geeks) wind up employing the losers who tormented them in the first place.
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