you know what I love? Seeing people that were meanto me in high school and they have becomefat/ugly/ bald. That is called karma.

LOL Leggs. I haven't see any of my HS friends in the last 20 years, but I used to see them all the time when our Kids were in the same HS. That would have been mostly in our 40s and I hate to say, they all looked pretty good.. dammit!

I've seen two people that I used to go to HS with....and I wasn't friends with them then.....and one was looking pretty good (it was a guy) and the other (a girl) looked much older than her age. I don't know what kind of life she's led since HS but it appears to have been rough for her. I really didn't know either of them well when we were in HS, though. Just different sets of friends.

There are a few girls who were mean to me that I wouldn't mind time catching up with!

Well....I was a cheerleader, national honor society, yearbook editor, on homecoming and prom court (didn't win, thanks for asking) Grand Marshall for the graduating class a year ahead of me and many other things too stupid to mention AND

I hated it with a passion. I even was able to leave early (January) and go back to walk with the class in June. School work wasn't bad for me and I even tutored a couple of my peers struggling with some subjects.

It was the kids I went to school with. Too many girls were nasty, jelous, petty b-word girls. I let a few of them really get to me and it made me miserable. Now as an adult, I gained empathy and understanding due to the way I was treated (Thank God there was no cyber bullying available in the mid 1970's). One girl in particular would not let me alone and actually drove my self esteem to an all time low. Later in life she fessed up about being so jelous of me. Why? She was short and I was tall. She was a AA cup and I was a B, my fingernails grew easily and she chewed hers......the list went on and on and I can't believe I let her torture me the way she did.
On homecoming night, her boyfriend was chosen to escort me out on to the football field.....she gave him so much crap about it that I actually thought he was going to leave me stranded
NO I HATED HIGH SCHOOL AND HATED JUNIOR HIGH EVEN WORSE

i hate to recollect all this but since you asked. NOOOOOOOOOO! yes, i said NO.

i was severely emotionally abused at home. i believe my battle with depression started early. i became overweight, a double whammy. then the abuse at school started. i was shut out at school. ostracized. no one at the 1 dance i ever went to in my school yrs asked me to dance. i never went again.

some boys threw rocks at me on the way walking home. i had 2 friends that i still have today, 52 yrs later. one of them is the friend that has her home 2 down from mine. she makes my heart sing. we can finish each other's sentences.

thankfully in my adult yrs and after therapy i'm well adjusted and not depressed. my relationship with my parents in my adult yrs was mended and loving. they've since passed away and none of us had any regrets.

i have only painful memories of jr and sr HS. if i got offered a million dollars i would never go back, not even for an hr.

whew, now that i've unloaded that...

I think I had worse times in grade school. Had two really good friends and the rest of them ostecized me because, it was a Catholic school and my Mom & Dad divorced when I was 12. So Not Acceptable in the 50s.

Nancy and everyone else who had a hard time in HS. I'm including myself in that group! It seems very unfair that we had to be the brunt of the "mean kids" jokes and abuse. I'm glad that it's being taken seriously now. I'm glad there are anti-bullying laws now and that there are real consequences to those who attempt to bully anyway.

I don't know how the majority of the mean kids turned out because I never kept up with them. I really do hope they changed their ways and are nicer adults than they were young people.

I hope this thread hasn't brought back too many bad memories for anyone. I'm thankful those years are over and that I can look back and not have any regrets for the way I treated people. I can honestly say that due to the mean treatment of a few people I swore to never treat anybody that way. Wasn't always easy but I'm glad I'm not remembered as being a part of that group. Honestly, I would not be surprised if anybody remembered me..........but I would not want to be remembered by anyone as someone who was mean to them.

Life has it's challenges no matter what stage we're in. I'll take "right now" over "back then" even with the MS!

amen!!!!!!!!!!

I guess high school was ok for me. I didn't hang with many people outside of family anyway. I was the quiet shy nerd that everyone looked to for help. Thankfully my classmates were all pretty focused on getting an education and getting out of our rural little county. So there was academic competition, but not too much in dating, sports and socializing.

High School was just a time in my Life, some good times, some bad times. It doesn't mean anything to me. That said I will go to my 40th Reunion next weekend.