Senior Yearbook

[Navarre]

When was the last time you went back and looked at your senior yearbook from high school?

I happened to pick up mine today and look through it for the first time in a while. My senior year was 1986, twenty-five years ago.

I can't believe how much has happened in my life since then. I would change almost all of it if I could but I try to be more nostalgic than regretful.

I also wonder what happened to all the people in my senior class. I don't know what happened to any of them except one of us who killed himself a couple of years ago.

Anyway, just reflecting and thought it might stir a spark in some of you.

[schleicher12000]

There is this thing called a reunion, most schools have them for graduates and they usually go at 10 year increments. Did you not get an invite to your last one?  That is usually the best way to see what former classmates are doing.  That or facebook...everyone's on facebook these days, even old people.

Me, I don't give two shits what my old classmates are doing, and have not been to any of the reunions.

[Alisha Mynx]

Me, I don't give two shits what my old classmates are doing, and have not been to any of the reunions.

That's my stance for about 97% of the people I went to school with.  However, there are those very few that I think about once in a while, people who might not have been close friends but were still decent people to me.  One of those people is actually now one of my closest real-life friends (I keep two categories of friends, those I see in RL and those I only have contact with via internet, with some people moving categories from time to time). 

But for the rest of the people I went to school with?  I don't give a rat's backside.  And as I was forced to get my GED because the school wanted to fail me for having frequent doctor's appointments and getting sick to easily, I won't be invited to reunions.  And I don't mind one bit. 

[Gaumer]

Me, I don't give two shits what my old classmates are doing, and have not been to any of the reunions.

This.


I graduated in the summer prior to my senior year.

[Navarre]

There is this thing called a reunion...Did you not get an invite to your last one? 

No.

That or facebook...everyone's on facebook these days, even old people.

I don't have a facebook account.

Me, I don't give two shits what my old classmates are doing.

I don't think anyone cares about anybody, really.

[Larry King]

Me, I don't give two shits what my old classmates are doing, and have not been to any of the reunions.

Same here brother. The first three years of Highschool sucked. My senior year I was in Yearbook/Journalism(Fall semester for one, Spring for the other). Those classes, and the fact that nobody wanted to talk/mess with me due to the rumor that I might come to school one day and pull a Columbine. I got called into the Guidance Counseler's office once a month for a "Chat" to see if I was making friends. Like I told the lady, I am here to get my diploma, not to be in the Beta Club, or FFA.

I went one semester of College, free ride, until the money ran out(thanks to embezzing), then I had to get a job. I didn't want to go to college. I didn't want to go to school. I wanted to work on a farm. Pick squash, okra, peppers. I look at my yearbook from time to time. Look at it and laugh. I made out like a bandit. So many of my graduating class(last time I heard, didn't ask, because I didn't care) are in dept up to their eyeballs with student loans, got degrees in things they can't use practically, are flipping burgers, got a couple kids from different fathers, addicts of somekind, and had to move back in with mommy and daddy.

I am probably the most successful out of my class. Held a job for six years. Don't drink. Don't have kids running around. No dept. So I am doing pretty good. I didn't go to my Prom. Never regretted it. Won't regret not going to my reunion. Those hicks can go screw.

[Gibralter]

I don’t think about high school. I’m still friends with some of the people I went with. But then again those people I’ve been friends with my whole life. I grew up in a do nothing town in northern Michigan of about nine hundred people. It was a football town and I didn’t play football.
All through high school I got told (most of my classmates and a few of the teachers) I was a psycho loser nerd that would never amount to anything. My father was the only one that ever had any faith in me. After being told on several times I would never graduate I passed all my classes and graduated in the middle of my class. After about a year of doing odd jobs I joined the Army to finally get out of that town being my family didn’t have the money to send me to college. (I signed up in June before 9/11 so hey timing!) 
In my time in the service I was deployed twice and learned what the real world and more importantly what life is really like. Now I’m out of the service, living in Virginia just south of D.C., I’m going to college thank you G.I. Bill, work a decent job and dating a beautiful woman.
Everything I’ve done that that’s been worth anything happened outside of high school. I’ve traveled the world, been to fifteen different countries on three continents and got laid and/or drunk in all of them. I’ve done things I’m not proud of and seen both the best and worst of human nature. I don’t regret any of it.
I still read my comics, play my pen and paper RPG’s and play a mean hand at Magic. Meanwhile most of the people I went to school with are still living in the same area and are divorced with kids. So yeah I’m don’t miss the life I could have had if I had “fit in” like a lot of people told me I should have.

[Navarre]

I seem to be in the group of people everyone else was glad to leave behind. Maybe that's why I was the only one who cared about their yearbook. Whatever; stupid topic I guess.  I really want to move forward with my own life. But the worst parts of my past keep following me.

[Alisha Mynx]

I seem to be in the group of people everyone else was glad to leave behind. Maybe that's why I was the only one who cared about their yearbook. Whatever; stupid topic I guess.  I really want to move forward with my own life. But the worst parts of my past keep following me.

The people I was glad to leave behind were the "We fit in because we all act alike" asshats that would cause trouble for anyone even remotely different, and they came from families that acted the exact same immature way.  These are the people who told my family that I deserved having cancer because I was a sinner when I was diagnosed when I was FOUR YEARS OLD.  These aren't people I'd want to associate with at ANY time of my life.

[Navarre]

I find myself narrowing down the world to only the very few people with whom I feel safe. That is currently about seven people worldwide.

None of them are in my senior yearbook so I hear what you are saying.

[The Mighty King Cobra]

When was the last time you went back and looked at your senior yearbook from high school?

Never.  Nostalgia often seems, to me, like wasted energy.  Most importantly, it seems a little bit self-defeating to idealize the "magical teenage years" any more than society already does.  The honest truth is, high school is just another portion of your life, and many of the people who were important to me then are still a part of my life. 

Even the people who seemed to be perfect and unattainable and such were desperately vamping to find their own identity.  What would it prove for me to dwell on that 25 years after the fact?  Doesn't that just strengthen my feelings of isolation and estrangement and make it harder to deal with the now?

[The Mighty King Cobra]

I don't think anyone cares about anybody, really.

That seems both harsh and sad.

[Otter Disaster]

I went to my 20 year reunion in May, and it was okay.  I chatted with a few people who aren't on Facebook and hadn't seen since the day we graduated and it was generally pleasant.  I really spent 99% of the time with a couple of people I've stayed in touch with anyway, and it was more like an excuse to see them. 

I did grow up in a very small town and went to the same school with the same kids for 12 straight years.  My High School years there were not 'the best years of my life' for sure, but I do have a few literal lifelong friend from the town from which I graduated.

I was talking with my wife about a restaurant she always likes to visit when we visit her family, and she thinks it's the best place to eat in the whole world, and I don't think it's all that great.  I told her, 'Well, there's no spice like nostalgia', and since that conversation we've found that statement applies to old books, movies, TV shows and people that we once thought were the greatest thing in the world. We see them as great only because we attach certain feelings of a certain time to them, and when viewed without that filter those things/people can often suck out loud.

[Slappy]

Still talk to many even before FB.  Small HS with a HUGE senior class that year of 145.  Afterwards it went back down to the 110-115 average.

[jcrowe89]

I probably shouldn't say anything since I'm only 4 years out of High School, but I'm gonna anyway. HS was a hard time for me, being Bi-Curious and living in a small town in the southeast US(i.e. Bible Belt) is hard, I only had a few friends then(count 2 though the only thing we had in common was Pokemon lol) and I don't speak to any of them, cause they were all a grade below me. The ironic thing is my girlfriend graduated last month from the same school, and her and her friends are the only ones I need and don't get me started on college...(number one because it's off topic, and number two because I'm upset cause I can't get anymore financial aid, long story ask if you want to here it in a PM)