January seems to be the month of summer parties, birthdays, gatherings, basically a month of group socialising, predominantly bound together with the intentions of getting smashed and hooking up with randoms. Something that many of my peers seem to consider as having fun and maybe it is but, to be honest, the idea has never really appealed to me. Now, even though it is well over a year since I graduated from high school, I only recently realised how despite living in the real world a part of me is still stuck in the societal expectations of the hallowed halls of high school. As many know the social ranking of high school is made out to be the most important thing, many belong to a clique of some descript whether it's the "popular people" or the "nerds" or "jocks" and well for those who don't belong to any group they are ironically cast to the clique of "the outsiders." Now I'm no Ponyboy; in high school, I was part of a gro