High School - just a blur?

[wishfulthinking]

I have a shit memory, and it's embarrassing. Please tell me it isn't just me.

This guy had been standing about 1m from where I was standing for about 1/2 hour or so, and was probably waiting for me to recognise him. He had to tell me his name, and that he was in my grade at school. Then he went on to mention all these other names, and I couldn't place them. Eg.

Him: I saw X last year

Me: Was she the tall one, with sandy hair?

Him: No. Short, with brown hair. Do you remember Y?

Me: red hair with freckles?

Him: no. but he wagged school a lot, so you might not remember him.

It was a complete blank, and I think he was in my group at school - that meant we shared lunch everyday.

This happens to everyone else, hey? You have this conversation at least twice a year?

 

[SlickTony]

If it's high school, you're obviously blocking something out.

I would honestly rather do four years in a well-run women's prison than do high school again.

 

[rgraham666]

There's only one person I remember from high school.

Sigh. It's been thirty three years and I still can recall her face clearly.

The rest, I've forgotten or am trying desperately to.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

If it's high school, you're obviously blocking something out.

I would honestly rather do four years in a well-run women's prison than do high school again.

This sounds about right. But then, some people had positive experiences in high school. For me, it was mostly pressure, with an equal amount of it coming from myself.

They pressed for me to be someone they would approve of, I pressed to be myself. Either way, my identity suffered, and I was pretty much miserable.

Of course, I can remember nearly everyone I ever meet, so...

*shrug*

Perhaps I need some of your memory issues, wishful.

Q_C

 

[minsue]

No, I remember everybody, every friend, every asshole, every lover, every laugh with or at me, every harsh word, all of it.

I'm often the one not remembered, though, so it's a concept I get very well.

 

[erise]

If I had gone to school those years, I would probably have remembered it.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

High school seemed like such a blur
I didn't have much interest in sports or school elections
And in class I dreamed all day, about a rock 'n' roll weekend.

 

[minsue]

High school seemed like such a blur
I didn't have much interest in sports or school elections
And in class I dreamed all day, about a rock 'n' roll weekend.

*humming*
...endless weekend, getting high and feeling low...

 

[Belle_Ringer]

High School? Wasn't that the place we went in the morning to complain about the hangovers and laugh at who got caught kissing who?

Yeah, I was kissing a girl at the party. So what? Jealous?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

*humming*
...endless weekend, getting high and feeling low...

Hehe. I think high school might have been better if we'd gotten drunk or high. It's a sober blur, which is somehow more lame.

 

[minsue]

Hehe. I think high school might have been better if we'd gotten drunk or high. It's a sober blur, which is somehow more lame.

Don't worry, sweets. I was drunk and high enough to make up for you all.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Don't worry, sweets. I was drunk and high enough to make up for you all.

Was it you that spilled the bong water in my car?

 

[minsue]

Was it you that spilled the bong water in my car?

Nope, but the everclear was probably me. I was too cheap for a bong.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Hehe. I think high school might have been better if we'd gotten drunk or high. It's a sober blur, which is somehow more lame.

ah yes, every detail sharp and.... ugh. *shudders*

psstt.... about the bong water: brian did it

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Nope, but the everclear was probably me. I was too cheap for a bong.

I thought it was paint thinner.

 

[erise]

I was too cheap for a bong.

Dude, a little creativity,and anything can be a bong.

But in order to get creative, you need a bong.

Whoa, what a, like, dilemma.

 

[minsue]

Dude, a little creativity,and anything can be a bong.

But in order to get creative, you need a bong.

Whoa, what a, like, dilemma.

Dude, that's deep.


We usually just went for the poor man's pipe made from a soda can. Or, in true hours of desperation, dumping the tobacco from a cigarette to use the paper.

 

[erise]

Dude, that's deep.


We usually just went for the poor man's pipe made from a soda can. Or, in true hours of desperation, dumping the tobacco from a cigarette to use the paper.

Cig paper was never a shortage here. Evey other smoker rolls their own anyway, so it was easy to "borrow" a pack.

Never bonged, actually.

 

[Belle_Ringer]

I was too cheap for a bong.

I don't believe you have ever been cheap...a good bargain maybe, but never cheap, sugar.

 

[impressive]

From anyone's perspective but my own, my high school years were idyllic. I excelled at anything I did ... seemingly effortlessly. No awkwardness. No zits. I was as damned close to physical perfection as I've ever come (although, being a teen, I was certain I was fat). Sweet (not catty). At the top of my class academically. Varsity athlete in 3 sports. Elite choir. Homecoming court. All of that enviable jazz.

And I hated myself. There was nothing inside. Just hollow & hurting.

 

[matriarch]

From anyone's perspective but my own, my high school years were idyllic. I excelled at anything I did ... seemingly effortlessly. No awkwardness. No zits. I was as damned close to physical perfection as I've ever come (although, being a teen, I was certain I was fat). Sweet (not catty). At the top of my class academically. Varsity athlete in 3 sports. Elite choir. Homecoming court. All of that enviable jazz.

And I hated myself. There was nothing inside. Just hollow & hurting.

I can so relate to that. (Not the sport, way too small to excell at anything, but I could take a crack on my shins from a well placed hockey stick with great charm. )

I would do just about anything rather than have to go through those years again.

I did what a lot of people did, developed an outer shell, through humour, mostly directed at myself. If I laughed first, at me, they didn't see any point.

And yet.........3 years ago I was instrumental in organising a re-union of my year....36 years since we had last met. Bizarre as it may seem, it was great fun. And I recognised everyone.

Scary.

 

[Guest]

ah, high school.
i went on occasion. they graduated me, i think, because they didn't recognize who i was in a cap and gown.
i was the school ghost. didn't belong in any group except that i won some kinda business competition for the stock market...and did some modeling for filene's through that business group...
i think i skipped the teen years and went straight from 10 to 20, mentally...
im making up for that now.

 

[oggbashan]

I attended so many schools (no, not because they threw me out but because my parents kept switching countries because of my father's career) that I remember very few individuals as whole personas.

The constant moving meant that keeping in touch with school friends was difficult. I have lists such as year books which help me to remember but even the last school was over 40 years ago and since I have attended NO reunions I have nothing to trigger the memory.

I have been back to a reunion of my Scout group. I was startled by how much I remembered about people who were there and disappointed about how little so had changed. They might be grandfathers yet they seemed no more mature than when they were 16. However I think that is true of many reunions. We revert to our personality of the time and behave like 16 year-olds.

Og

 

[Guest]

I attended so many schools (no, not because they threw me out but because my parents kept switching countries because of my father's career) that I remember very few individuals as whole personas.

The constant moving meant that keeping in touch with school friends was difficult. I have lists such as year books which help me to remember but even the last school was over 40 years ago and since I have attended NO reunions I have nothing to trigger the memory.

I have been back to a reunion of my Scout group. I was startled by how much I remembered about people who were there and disappointed about how little so had changed. They might be grandfathers yet they seemed no more mature than when they were 16. However I think that is true of many reunions. We revert to our personality of the time and behave like 16 year-olds.

Og

*sigh*
ive been replaced by Sir Thomas Wyatt?
i guess i had my 15 moments of fame lurking within Og's sigline. it felt rather nice.

 

[SlickTony]

Hehe. I think high school might have been better if we'd gotten drunk or high. It's a sober blur, which is somehow more lame.

How true, how true.

I feel that those for whom high school was a peak experience were part of the problem for the rest of us.