grab yer kids and yer smokes and we'll hit the golf course (sic)
I burned it then i burned my mail box
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Guys I know I am late for the post it note conversation but my post it notes are in the shape of dog's face and I often just leave them on people's desks with the words, "woof woof" on them.
I've kind of intentionally dropped off the radar from my high school life. I look back on it realizing that a lot of my friends were actually pretty abusive toward me, and that in turn that probably made me a shit to another group of friends. Basically the endless cycle of everyone being a little shit when they're a teen.
Then factor in the reminders of my life before my family fell apart and it's just like nope, easier without trying to recapture that part of my life.
Guys I know I am late for the post it note conversation but my post it notes are in the shape of dog's face and I often just leave them on people's desks with the words, "woof woof" on them.
Mine cost sixty bucks, wasn't an open bar, and a look at the guest list showed none of the people I particularly cared about were gonna be there. So that was an easy decision at least.
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If I still lived in my home area, I'd definitely be interested in going to a high school reunion. Presumably, if we're having one, the ten year is going to be later this spring.
I was a pretty different person in high school, largely for the worse, and I went through one of my worse bouts of depression during my senior year, causing me to cut a lot of contact with people I knew. I remained in touch with two or three people afterwards, and even that only lasted a couple of years.
So, essentially, a high school reunion would be a good chance for me to reconnect with some people I knew. Maybe not all of the same people, mind you, as, like I said, I'm a very different person now, but I would be interested to see how it goes, at very least.
However, I'm not going to buy a two hundred dollar plane ticket to attend, which is what it would be for me to do so at this point.
It'd be bittersweet to go to one for me, being nerdy then being one of the few that isn't doing min wage retail now and got into my field before the depression in 2008.
I see a lot of them with degrees too, on facebook, and they're struggling to find any work. One of them was an early childhood education and she's been waiting for a job for almost 8 years now, but no one's retiring and budgets are getting slashed (but school taxes are going up so hey!).
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
The awkward thing for me is that I'm mostly happy with my life, but I'm definitely not successful in ways that are overtly evident and some of the things I'm most proud of aren't things I really want to tell my former classmates about (nor do I think they'd understand why I'm proud of them), so it would be a lot of that awkward, generic, "yeah, yeah things are pretty great, y'know.'
Most of the people I went to high school with are still in the area and seem to have largely not changed from high school
which, no real judgement there, do what makes you happy
but I've no interest in engaging with people like that anymore
Yep, a bunch of people for whom the biggest common ground was "went to the same school". I bear them no ill-will but am also glad I can spend time with people I actually relate to.
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I'm closer to my high-school graduation than my 10-year reunion.
Next year for me, other than privately hoping people make a bit of a deal out of it despite publicly acting like I don't care, I'm not really bothered by it. I mostly still feel young, other than the occasional pain-for-no-reason, and that's all that matters.
Naw it is just most people have done something with themselves by 30.
I've managed to piss away three decades.
Don't set absurd milestones for yourself. Most accomplishments don't mean much in the long run and the ones that do, often take a long time to truly pay off. What's important to be happy in not just what you've done but what you are doing and will be doing and if it takes you 40 years to get where you want to be, that's perfectly alright. You're a cool dude who I know has made a lot of self-improvements over the years--I've seen you talk about how different you used to be--and that alone is worth being proud of. Don't look at turning 30 as a reason to regret not getting further in life, use it as an opportunity to figure out where you wanna go from here. And if you don't know where, well, thinking about it is a good way to start. 30 isn't that old, you still have plenty of time to start trying stuff and see what catches your interest.
Most of the people I went to high school with are still in the area and seem to have largely not changed from high school
which, no real judgement there, do what makes you happy
but I've no interest in engaging with people like that anymore
Yep, a bunch of people for whom the biggest common ground was "went to the same school". I bear them no ill-will but am also glad I can spend time with people I actually relate to.
This was kind of the logic one of my best friends used to go to the reunion. It's been long enough that most of these people are strangers, but there is some point of commonality to jump off from. So it's a case of meeting a whole bunch of people and having something to start the conversation instead of just standing around.
I still passed on it. But apparently most of the people had a really good time, so good for them!
Also the fact that a dude who claimed to really want to get together and hang out totally fucking ghosted me when I tried to arrange a hangout made me realize that maybe high school friends can be pretty shitty
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The ones I like, I still see on occasion anyway
grab yer kids and yer smokes and we'll hit the golf course (sic)
I burned it then i burned my mail box
Satans..... hints.....
Then factor in the reminders of my life before my family fell apart and it's just like nope, easier without trying to recapture that part of my life.
You're doin good work, Blake.
My crush is back Tuesday, I've been told I should ask her to coffee when I see her
I have a job interview Wednesday
And I'm actually sleeping much better lately, which is helping with everything!
but I think the pills are making me bloated and gassy
I had thought it was from too much beer, but I didn't drink any beer Saturday or Sunday, and I'm still bloated and gassy
I was a pretty different person in high school, largely for the worse, and I went through one of my worse bouts of depression during my senior year, causing me to cut a lot of contact with people I knew. I remained in touch with two or three people afterwards, and even that only lasted a couple of years.
So, essentially, a high school reunion would be a good chance for me to reconnect with some people I knew. Maybe not all of the same people, mind you, as, like I said, I'm a very different person now, but I would be interested to see how it goes, at very least.
However, I'm not going to buy a two hundred dollar plane ticket to attend, which is what it would be for me to do so at this point.
I see a lot of them with degrees too, on facebook, and they're struggling to find any work. One of them was an early childhood education and she's been waiting for a job for almost 8 years now, but no one's retiring and budgets are getting slashed (but school taxes are going up so hey!).
which, no real judgement there, do what makes you happy
but I've no interest in engaging with people like that anymore
Yep, a bunch of people for whom the biggest common ground was "went to the same school". I bear them no ill-will but am also glad I can spend time with people I actually relate to.
Yall're old.
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it'll happen to you too
I'm only 32 so I'm not super old, but I'm still old.
I'm super old
and it makes me better
What?
I've been young my whole life.
Surely I'll be young forever?
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are you like a stinky cheese?
some parts of me yes
One day
you'll wake up
and your body will creak and crack
and it'll feel like a freight train slammed into you
Good luck.
That's as many as three tens.
And that's terrible.
it absolutely is not
Next year for me, other than privately hoping people make a bit of a deal out of it despite publicly acting like I don't care, I'm not really bothered by it. I mostly still feel young, other than the occasional pain-for-no-reason, and that's all that matters.
I've managed to piss away three decades.
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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Don't set absurd milestones for yourself. Most accomplishments don't mean much in the long run and the ones that do, often take a long time to truly pay off. What's important to be happy in not just what you've done but what you are doing and will be doing and if it takes you 40 years to get where you want to be, that's perfectly alright. You're a cool dude who I know has made a lot of self-improvements over the years--I've seen you talk about how different you used to be--and that alone is worth being proud of. Don't look at turning 30 as a reason to regret not getting further in life, use it as an opportunity to figure out where you wanna go from here. And if you don't know where, well, thinking about it is a good way to start. 30 isn't that old, you still have plenty of time to start trying stuff and see what catches your interest.
This was kind of the logic one of my best friends used to go to the reunion. It's been long enough that most of these people are strangers, but there is some point of commonality to jump off from. So it's a case of meeting a whole bunch of people and having something to start the conversation instead of just standing around.
I still passed on it. But apparently most of the people had a really good time, so good for them!
Already past my 20-year reunion. If we had one, I'd be past my 25-year.
Get off my lawn.
oh yeah
list them
I think you'll find that there aren't that many compared to the whole of humanity
it's hard to find people over 30 without kids, my dating pool is tiny
especially as a guy, where our dating pool is as tiny as it is
Chromdom, you paid me to cut your lawn for you because your joints were acting up.
Did you forget?
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date me bowen
problem solved
will you take me to disney world
HA!
not at all
i'll take you to heaven baby
and also Disney world