Woah. I cant beleive i am leaving high school in 1 and 1/2 days. I always thought i would be ready to leave and never look back, but now i feel so lost thinking about all the people im going to lose after high school is over. People that i now enjoy talking to on a regular basis are going to become just familiar faces in crowds and faint memories of the past. How depressing is that!?!?! Im all prepped and ready to get out of the BS that is High School cirriculum, and i figured i would be ready to hit the pavement running, but now im finding myself wishing i could stay with these people just a little while longer. Its the strangest feeling of being incomplete. I feel like there is something in my high school experience i havent fulfilled but have not near enough time to search out.... I cant explain it, anyone else graduating/graduated have this feeling? Ive been going to such a small school these four years i feel like im moving away from a family almost. I know it is time to move on, and i will take my best friends with me, but what about the rest?? the inside jokes?? the company of the day without the hassle of wondering what to do?? GAH!!!! i cant take it!!!! im gonna cry after all!!!!
Its life... I got out of school over a year ago, and had no problems like the ones you're having. I was (still am) glad to get away from them... I assume you've never gone to a different school? It was really easy for me, probably because I've moved a lot throughout my life and what not..
Its sad to say but you will lose touch with a lot of those people over time, but it also makes for interesting times when you suddenly get an email or phone call, or just run into them sometime. Enjoy the memories you have of them and be glad that you were alive in that little piece of time in that corner of the world. Exchange emails and phone numbers and try to keep in touch with the people that matter to you most. I still talk to a few of my highschool friends from time to time. Try getting some pictures of your favorite times and people to help you remember them but also look forward to the future and the new friends your going to make. Remember that life always works out in the end so don't fight it, flow with it and let the river of life take you on a great adventure. Peace ~Donnie~
Good advice, Donnie... I'm graduating this year too...and although I'm ready to get out of HS, it's seems a little odd. Seems like not long ago I was just a freshmen who didn't know anyone. I'm not "popular" (wouldn't want to be) but I know lots of people in my school, and more peopel than that know me, and I have no clue who some of them are. But the people I talk to on a daily basis, the people who have made a major impact on my life--those are the people I will try my hardest to stay in contact with. So it'll most likely be a couple of classmates, and a couple of teachers... Life's about changes and transitions...and from highschool to whatever your next step on the path is, is just another transition. Just go with it, keep a positive mind set, and soround yourself with good vibes...I'll send ya some! Peace!
Yeah it is one of my favorite songs... AGH!! now youve got me all emotional thinking about that song!!!! Cries... memories... sweet sweet memories....
What you're feeling is natural and normal. Look at it as a great opportunity to try new things and meet new people.
Yeah, I can imagine how that feels. It's not like I'm "popular", but I know tons of people that I'll miss talking to on a daily basis when I go off to college.
I still have a year left, but I've been crying nonstop this week because all my seniors and a few of my favorite teachers are leaving me. My favorite teacher ever is moving to Switzerland to teach at a boarding school there... and that's hard for me because he's been my Spanish teacher for 2 classes and my French teacher for one and I would have had him for Spanish again next year. Next year is going to be even worse because most of my friends go to college in state, but most schools in Georgia are like 13th grade and the two worthwhile ones (other than GA Tech because I'm not going to be an engineer) are Emory and Ogelthorpe... both of which are too close to home. This year only 15 seniors in a class of 450 went to a school in a state not touching Georgia and only 2 of those were North of the Mason-Dixon line. Not my idea of fun... so pretty much, I'm just preparing myself for losing all my friends because it will be so hard to maintain friendships from 1000 miles away when we all go off in our different directions.
i left highschool in 2003. up until my college got The Facebook, i lost virtually all contact with my high school friends. there was 1 friend that i kept in touch with through AIM since high school, but that was it. but since my school joined facebook, i've been able to talk to a few friends of mine from high school that i haven't talked to in a while. but other than the internet, i've lost all contact. i don't mind, because i have made friends at college. the wierd thing is, most of my high school friends, including me, stayed in the new england area for college, so its not like we are far away from each other. on one hand, when i look at my HS yearbook, i remember all the fun times i had with my friends and what not...but on the other hand, i've moved on to better things and new friends. life works itself out in time, you'll make new friends but you won't forget your old friends.
