When you find out someone you used to know turned out to have a messed up life

I discovered by accident on the Internet today, that a girlfriend from high school had a pretty messed up life. She appears to have been brainwashed by some cult like group, had her child taken away and parental rights terminated, and has Youtubes videos with a bunch of Mike Yates like ideological rantings about the government, etc. She has been in mental institutions. Her last know whereabouts are unknown after she lost the child.

I hadn't seen her since I was probably 19, but I still feel bad. She was the first girl I ever did anything seriously physical with. She was always crazy, but that was the fun part. I didn't realize how crazy in retrospect. I feel sad for her. :(
 
One of my high school hot shot jocks who thought he was all that died a penniless alcoholic bum under a bridge last summer.

I had mixed feelings, because he was such an ass in high school.
 
I went back to a high school reunion a couple of years ago.
Eye-opening indeed!
The people I always thought would go far, haven't. In fact, quite a few of them are what I would call complete failures, no job, no solid home, no prospects, some are alcoholic, some are druggies, and the one guy we all thought might become at least a major bank manager is now an enforcer for an outlaw bikie gang.
 
I know a few guys who turned into crack heads.


Don't really know how I feel about it other than the wasted talent...
 
I discovered by accident on the Internet today, that a girlfriend from high school had a pretty messed up life. She appears to have been brainwashed by some cult like group, had her child taken away and parental rights terminated, and has Youtube videos with a bunch of Mike Yates like ideological rantings about the government, etc. She has been in mental institutions. Her last know whereabouts are unknown after she lost the child.


I actually looked her up on a whim. She has an extremely unusual name, not necessarily wierd but unusual. I don't really know why I never looked her up on the internet before. My parents always hated her. Didn't understand why at the time.
 
I went back to a high school reunion a couple of years ago.
Eye-opening indeed!
The people I always thought would go far, haven't. In fact, quite a few of them are what I would call complete failures, no job, no solid home, no prospects, some are alcoholic, some are druggies, and the one guy we all thought might become at least a major bank manager is now an enforcer for an outlaw bikie gang.

Yeah, and interestingly some of the people you thought at the time would never amount to anything turn out to be quite successful or whatever. Its wierd.
 
I have a dysfunctional life because I have mild intellectual/cognitive disabilities.

The simple fact that I do not possess the required college degree is preventing me from finding decent employment of any kind.

I may literally be stuck performing menial labor for the rest of my life because of my mental limitations.

Life is wonderful isn't it? Full of devastating disappointments.
 
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One of my high school hot shot jocks who thought he was all that died a penniless alcoholic bum under a bridge last summer.

I had mixed feelings, because he was such an ass in high school.

I seriously hate when douchebags die because I never know how to react. Internally, I cannot make myself give a shit, but externally, everyone's walking around like it's this horrible thing and I'm just sitting there all "pokerface". It's an awkward situation.
 
You wonder if there was something you could have done to help them but in the end people are responsible for their own life and choices.
 
All life ends the same, it's how we get there that matters. It's no laughing matter when you consider how little there is between one person's sense of direction and another's. How easy it might have been to make a wrong turn.

I'm that guy that everyone looks at and thinks, "How the hell did he survive all those wrong turns?"
 
All life ends the same, it's how we get there that matters. It's no laughing matter when you consider how little there is between one person's sense of direction and another's. How easy it might have been to make a wrong turn.

That actually quite poignant (I think thats the right word).
 
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