No Kat, he has always been this way, in hindsight. The paradox/contradiction of his life was that he couldn't wait to get away from all the jerks in high school, but he also built his entire future around his dream of coming back to work the family farm.
Our school was like a lot of little schools (108 per graduating class roughly) I suppose. You have the top dogs with the right last name whose families are 'big' in town. So they start on all the sports teams, get away with murder (ok not murder but cops look the other way on minor in possession, etc), and basically run the show.
He hated those guys/gals bc they made him feel inferior due to his lack of money, cool car, etc. It is funny that he always says he could care less what a$$holes like that think and yet he admits in his weakest moments that part of the reason he 'needs' money for new trucks, more cows, etc is to stick it to those guys and prove he is better than they are?
Then there were the 'river rat' kids as they called themselves. Hung out riding 4 wheelers and drinking beer down by the river, most didn't go to school beyond highschool, lived in our town their whole lives, etc. He feels better than them which again would make him like the cocky kids he hated bc they thought they were better than everyone else??
