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High School - Do You Have Any Regrets?

It's Memorial Day Weekend - The unofficial start of Summer. That means that we've reached High School Graduation season. Each year I reflect back to that point in my life and maybe you do too. In that light I pose a question. Do you have any regrets about your days in High School?

I have only one regret about my days at High School but it is something I could not control. I lived far off from my High School. I was bused in out of cluster because Parkview, my High School was the school selected by my county to hold the special education program for the visually impaired. My bus rides were and hour to and from. I could not participate in extracurriculars. I only attended two football games (and nothing else). I was a complete outsider and it wasn't my choice. I was nice, cordial, and polite to everyone I met and made many acquaintances but not really any friends because after the school bell rang I was out of there and gone until the bell rang the next day.

I never had the "High School Experience." If it wasn't evident to me it was completely so at Graduation time. I spent hours writing dozens of meaningful "Senior Letters" to my classmates but didn't get many in return. I was invited to prom (cause everyone was) but no one asked if I wanted to go with their group of friends (and no one really cared after I didn't show up) I invited many people to my Graduation party but no one showed up from my Graduating class. I was not invited to anyone else's party either. It didn't matter too much to me at the time but once I got to sit down and reflect upon it did hurt and still somewhat does. I didn't act like I was lonely and I felt unaccepted but I sure felt like it. Yes I realize I really wasn't alone cause I knew many people who were from the counter-culture and were bitter about the whole social classes and stuff but they made their choice...I was forced by my position.

Okay so I wrote a long passage (longer than I intended) but I'd like to know if you have any regrets about High School and/or what you did while there.

I would have tried to get away with more.
:D

I was way too well behaved througout much of High School. I was such a good christian boy, I very deliberately passed on some offers of hanky panky that I now wish I could cash in on. But that's nothing compared to my massive regerts about College. I blew it on every level, academic and social, in my college years.

On the other hand, I've had some amazing opportunities and made wonderful friends since then, so I don't wish any of it away. If I took up the "alternate timeline" back at college, I might be a bitter 9 to 5'er in Albuquerque rather than a perpetual adolescent who gets to play at Disney World and get paid for it.

I was VERY badly behaved in HS. I would have probably been netter served if I had just buckled down and studied. However, if I did that, I would not have had nearly as much fun.

I was an odd mix in high school. I was a goody-goody, but I was a cheerleader. My dancing got me on the squad, and they relied on me for choreography of the halftime routines, but I didn't fit in with them socially.

Do they still even have smoking areas in high schools? There was a smoking area at mine. I didn't hang there. Never smoked anything. All the other cheerleaders at least smoked at parties. I didn't even go to the parties.

Regrets? I dunno. Not really. No.

Nothing.

I don't miss it, nor do I care to remember or relive it.

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Originally Posted by zapppop (Post 212982)

Nothing.

I don't miss it, nor do I care to remember or relive it.

My thoughts exactly.

In my last couple months of 8th grade, the summer, and my first couple months of 9th grade, I grew about 7 inches and put on about 30 lbs. I went from a shortgeeky looking kid to being tall and decent looking, with attention from girls and by December of that year, I was actually popular. It went to my head and I started treating people like dirt. Sadly that lasted for about 3 years. It wasn't until my second semester of my senior year that I stopped acting like an arrogant fool. I regret that.

I had a lot of fun in high school - not sure what I could have done to be even more fun. I suppose I could have taken a few more risks, but I think I did well enough with the ones I took.

I had a great time in high school, and things I did at the school led to better things for myself, and continue to bring good things to the students there to this day (I was deeply involved with peer counseling/suicide prevention counseling- I still make an occasional appearance with the people who run the program now).