When high school ended, I remember thinking, "I am SO glad I never have to go through that again." I couldn't get out of there quickly enough. Mostly it was because I got my heart broken the beginning of senior year, and I spent the rest of the year wearing black and feeling completely depressed (in addition to other high school drama-crap that practically led me to the brink of mental disaster).
I've got a couple of thoughts and stories about high school I am going to share when I get around to writing them - which might be tomorrow, next week, or it might never happen. (It's hard to type one handed while holding a baby.) But just for fun, I've got three poll questions on my sidebar about high school because I would like to know how your experience was overall. (In other words, did your experience suck as much as mine did? Or did you get anything good out of it, like I did? Because I got my husband out of it, which is funny because we hated each other in high school.)
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I think you know which one I picked. :)
Fun poll! I graduated in 1995 in a class of over 1600. It took four hours to hand out diplomas! Because our class was so big, there really weren't any cliques. It was easy to remain invisible, which is exactly what I tried to be. Invisible. Just power though it and get outta there!
Hey, we're the same age! :) I had a rough first couple of years but found a great bunch of friends for the last two years. It's all about the friends, really.
Oh high school. I was not sad when I left that place behind forever. I'm friends will lots of people on facebook from high school---but it was not my choice. Half the time I'm not even sure if I actually knew them back then, or if they're just trying to up their friend count...
Hooray for never, ever, going back.
I had a wretched time of it. Lots of bullying and making myself miserable over every little thing. I'm glad I went through it though. Sort of a refiner's fire, as it were.
Yah, I have a couple really good friends from HS that I am happy to still have, but mostly, I did not enjoy it at all. It was so thrilling and wonderful to feel the freedom after graduating! Didn't even go to my 10 year reunion.
If I could go back with the knowledge and life experience I have at my old age, I would go back....I would love more, do more and worry less about the stupid things.
If you told me I had to re-live it, moment to moment like the first time....Not a snowballs chance in...well, you know where.
I had some good friends. But I also had some hard times. Kids are MEAN! Like you, I found my hubby there, so it wasn't ALL bad.
High school wasn't so bad. I spent most of it wishing I was more popular (who didn't) but was involved with stuff and had a good group of friends. My closest friends were from church, not school, so that made a difference. I loved my senior year. By that time everyone in my class were friends with everyone else.
I got my husband out of high school too! Short version: he dated my friend, they broke up. We became friends, then dated, then broke up. This was all junior year. 8 years later, we meet again and fall madly in love (again).
Other than that, high school was "meh... fine" which is how I voted in your poll. ;-)
You should have had a loved and hated it option.
:) 'Cause I think for me it was a little of both. I couldn't wait to get outta there, but I also have some fun memories.
LOL Y2K!
I was sad when high school was over. I knew there were many I would never see again and it was such a great time of life. But I also wish I could go back and do a few things very differently.
I'm one of those weirdos who loved high school. Just saying :)
You probably couldn't pay me enough to convince me to go back and re-live high school. It wasn't all bad...I had some good friends, but I wasn't sad to move on.
I just caught up the 11 unread posts of yours that were in my Reader. Which turns out to take about a while.
Oh look, you had your baby! She's gorgeous. I loved your birth story. My waters broke with 4 of my 5 labors (all of them but my last who had to be induced early) so that feeling of, "Oh, I'm going to have the baby tonight" is very familiar to me. I also had three of mine without anesthesia and I agree that it's very empowering and joyful when it's possible.
I relate to the non-clinical but still challenging baby-blues, too. Hang in there!
Re: blog commenting, I think it's nice when people comment, but I'd rather they read my blog and not comment than not read it. Sometimes all of us have things in our lives that are much higher priorities than blogging or reading blogs.
I love junk food, although I think the Haagen-Dazs bars might be our only specific overlapping junkfood vice.
I put that I'm in contact with more than 10 high school friends, but that's mostly because I live in the town where I went to high school, so I run into high school friends fairly often.But I was a part-time homeschooler, so there are plenty of people I never even met. I do have quite a few good memories, although I wouldn't go back and do high school over unless I could go back with my current level of life experience AND make everyone else more mature, too. :) And I reminisce a lot more about my college and mission years than I do about high school.
um, quite a while, not about a while
High school wasn't bad but I was so ready to get out of there when it was over. I was older for my grade, so I turned 18 at the beginning of my senior year so began to feel way too mature and old for that place ;)
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