How popular were you?
I was the biggest geek. But I used my smart mouth to keep me out of trouble and almost stop getting bullied by making fun of myself before anybody else did. I guess thats why the people I reconnected with from HS say I was such a crazy bitc#!
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I have about 200 that have requested me.
Out of those 200 only 15 were the ones I actually had classes with and shared any kind of life with in HS. The others are friends of friends that were popular and acted like they never saw me and some were bullies that threatened me almost everyday. Can you believe it?!
I dont know why the hell they would request me 20 years after wanting to jump my a$$ in HS just for being a 75 pound girl with big hair and big glasses. Now some of them are all into my writing and laughing at my comedy skits like we were best friends, HUH?! WEIRD...
They are even upset because I won't be going to the Reunion in two weeks. I dont know, I just feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone when it comes to them.
The Twilight Zone.....I know how you feel there. My 20 year reunion was last year and I never went to any of them. To hell with'em. If I want a trip back in time i'll watch "classic TV".
AHAHAHA, I swear it just boogles my mind.
This would have been my 20th as well.
Funny huh! Good for you. Let them keep guessing how you are, what you look like and what kind of job you have. I see that all they want to do is have a @%^# measuring contest, if you know what I mean. LOL. I'll take that trip with you to the classic tv channel.
It is always a pleasure to hear from you. I can clearly understand how you might consider my comments to be somewhat pretentious. But I do not know any other way to speak the truth. Often, modesty is like dirt that has been carefully, and purposely painted upon the face of a beautiful portrait, only to conceal the depth of it's beauty from the world. And so I must ask,"What is the worth of such modesty?" What right do I have to deprive the world of the truth? When I am asked a question, I feel bound to give the best answer that I can give.
And why should this not be? In 30-50 certainly 100 years, everyone reading my thoughtful commentary will be dead in the flesh. We will never return to this moment quite this way, and so, every moment is a special moment in eternity. I will not waste your time, nor will I be like the greedy butcher, and only give you the smallest, or most insignificant portion of the meat. No, I will give you the finest cut, and even add an extra portion to your empty basket. I would expect that you would also deliver to me the best that you have to offer. And so, I have revealed a perfect world. Osiyo!
WrenchBiscuit, you are alright. I actually enjoy your synopsis on things. You can be quite eloquent I might add.
...oh Daffy...not even your parents?....too bad!
...i never really thought about whether or not i was popular..i guess i was....i had friends of course....but over the years I only remained close to one high school friend after many years and still do (a real friend)....i moved across the country (Canada)...saw some folks (when I'd head back to my roots for a visit) but I had a different life and didn't stay in touch with everyone from my childhood/youth...I stayed in touch mostly with folks from my early adult years (and still do)....I'm 25
25, what the hell? You were in diapers when I started HS.
- Stevennix2001posted 13 years ago
0My parents weren't ashamed of me, they just didn't clap. Don't ask me why, they just didn't.
Uf, that's no good -- my mom clapped, I think...my dad decided not to come. I was never popular as a person in school, except with the "freaks and geeks," I found most of my best friends among those who had no other friends when I met them. That said, in the second half of high school I did become popular as an object -- I lost 80 pounds one summer, but kept other...erm...round and curvy attributes, and all of a sudden tons of people from the "popular crowd" were trying to buddy up to me. I did not date in high school at all because of that; I may have been young, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that pattern.
Today I still keep in touch with some of my best friends from high school, and a few people that I went to school with but never had anything in common with them then so we never really talked. It was a small school, so a lot of people turn up on Facebook and such and we've gotten to know each other now. One of my very best friends now is the older sister of a couple of other good friends whom I have since lost touch with, but she was two years ahead of me in school so we never interacted in school -- another great friend is the mother of my high school crush, go figure.
That said...I, too, am 25 (will be on Monday, at any rate) so it's not all that long ago. Thus far one person from our class has died, and a large percentage of them are active duty in the military right now. Give it time.Did you ever ask out your HS crush?
I had a crush on this guy for 2 years and I asked him to be my date to my Sweet 16. That night he gave me a kiss and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. That was it, nothing more. He told me he couldn't date me because he really liked being my friend. BROKE MY HEART...
BUT... Years later I went to a drag show and he was one of the performers
True story!
Go figure...-
I forgot to ask. How does he look?
Back then he had the brightest light brown (hazel) eyes and olive complexion.
Now, Flaming!
I'll always have a special place in my heart for him though, he was a really nice guy but that day, WOW he put me to shame with his makeup, wigs, outfits... Beautiful... I wish I had kept in touch, I could have asked for some make up techniques.That doesn't sound like a hard thing to do.
Hello Julie, nice to see you in the forums. 
Hope you are well. -
Popular kids in my high school were the rich kids. They were not only rich, they also did well in school and were the teachers' favourites. And to add insult to injury, they were all good-looking. As my parents were not rich.. well they were actually poor.. I didn't get to be popular, and my looks and my pea-size brain didn't help in that regard. So I blame my parents, financially and genetically. My parents were both smart though, but sadly I didn't inherit that trait.
Good one Tom! I wanted to say something like that as well.
I wasn't popular. I was one of the "mainstream masses" of kids who aren't particularly noticeable but who have their own circle of friends (who are also in the "mainstream masses") (so I wasn't an outcast or someone a lot of people didn't like either - which was good enough for me, for the most part). I was freakishly small and young looking, which meant I'd never look cool enough to be "one of the popular girls" (well, that, and the fact that I'm pretty much an introvert who hung out with other introverts for the most part). I have no idea if a few people who cheered for most other people may have cheered or not, because I was so shy about walking up in public, I wasn't tuned into what was happening outside my own head.
My parents weren't the cheering type at all. (More introverts - and people who favored "reserved" behavior. I'd have been shocked and embarrassed if I heard either of them cheering. ) My best girlfriend wasn't. Some of my other close friends may have broken any silence, I guess. Again, fine with me. (I wouldn't have wanted to be one of those kids whose graduation seemed like such a miracle it made most everybody hoot and holler and cheer. As far as the super-popular kids went, I guess I'd just accepted that I wasn't one of those and shouldn't expect graduation to be any different. In any case, I didn't think about any cheering.Not being tuned in? That happens to me too. Tunnel vision and all.
We were mainly two groups of three close friends who joined together to be group of six. There were a couple of stragglers who'd join us at times. I had an "extra" friend from pre-school age (and who I ended up staying in touch with, sort of, right into our fifties). I was "enviably" popular at the big supermarket where kids from my town and the next town over "all" worked.
My two close friends always said how I'd write a book one day. They'd say how I should write a book about "three girls" (one of those girlfriend books that have been done many times before in one form or another). We were so different (and enjoyed how different we were) that I often thought I could actually write one of those "three-girl" stories once we got older, and I saw "what happened to each of us".
Of the "original six" of us, my best friend was killed right before our 21st birthday. My other close friend and I stayed close into our thirties but eventually the differences in our personalities made us drift apart. Her life wasn't very book-worthy anyway.
Of the "other three" of the six, one went on her own way because she didn't get married until her 40's, so she didn't like hanging out with those who were married and had little kids. One had triplets at nineteen, married her babies' father, stayed married for a few years, and later went on to make up for her lost youth (from what I heard) by pretty much having a "high, old, time" for herself. I just heard recently that the sixth one, who had married a local fireman and highschool sweetheart died last year. I don't really think her life was very book-worthy either.
Now, as for the one of us (me) about whom the others had been so certain I would become the author of any number of books, "her" life has been worthy of a few books. In fact, it is that eventful (and pretty unusual, even peculiar) life that has gotten in the way of some of those books.
All these years later, and in spite of a whole lot of promises not kept, and dreams not fulfilled (quite yet, anyway), I still think of the way those two closest friends of mine took it so for granted that I"d "of course" "be the one" who would become "the successful author" (and "no question about it" ). Maybe I wasn't "Queen of the Popular Girls", but I sure treasure having had those few close friends who showed a kind of faith (no opinions/no advice/no "better ideas" attached) in me that I don't think anyone else ever has since then (at least not when it comes to my writing).Hey Tom, Where were you when I needed help with my school work?
I was poor and very popular. I was usually in a school for a day before the school bully would cross me because I was "different" and get a decent belting for his efforts. This made me popular very quickly.
I was bought up in the outback where I had to do a mans work amongst grown men, and the town kids were a pushover.People all have such different experiences, don't they....
All I know is that I've been so happy to be well out of the "whole school scene" and able to live without some of the stuff teens live with. Yes, it was nice to become an adult and learn of other lives that are interesting and different to the often petty education environment had to offer.
I was very rebellious as a child and young adult. I have a grandson who is the same.
He gets a fair go from his grandfather as you would imagine.
Never go back.
Some people simply outgrow where they came from.I was in the second to the most popular group in school, but I always felt like a geek and an outsider. And I never made cheerleader, because I felt like I wasn't pretty enough. And I was a writer and class poet which made me an automatic dork.
I kept "who and what" I really was a secret to anyone but my close circle of friends - which kept me safely in "mainstream masses".
That was actually a pretty smart thing to do, it turns out; because once I got out into the grown-up world, decided I'd no longer aim to come across as "mainstream masses", and just be who/what I am - that's when I ran into problems! Honestly. Seriously. People (even of the supposedly grown-up variety) don't like it when other people won't do the "mainstream masses" kind of thing.
I spent most of my 'school time' surfing, so being popular there was irrelevant when compared to riding waves. But I was more popular at the school reunion when I arrived in my $150,000 Porsche and parked beside the teacher who had declared at school that I would be the most likely to fail in life!
- EmpressFelicityposted 12 years ago0
I had a couple of friends, but I wasn't popular. I was both a nerd and an arrogant git (some people would say that nothing's changed there
). - klarawieckposted 12 years ago0
I wasn't that popular, but I never tried to get any attention either. I used to hang out with the weird musicians. I got in trouble a lot too. It was always someone else's fault but I'd take the blame somehow.
The principal liked me though! Now, I am going to be contrarian regarding this post. There can be a lot said for being unpopular. First, you do not have to please anybody. You do not have to submerge your personality in order for people to like you. You can pursue the hobbies and activities you love. You can say exactly what you please, not give a rip what others think of you. In the end, you will be liked for WHO you ARE. Boy, it is good not to please everyone.
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