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Do you wish you were back at highschool? Or glad that it is over?

posted 10 years ago by geert-j-vankempen
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I just watched The Breakfast Club, and it obviously reminded me a lot of highschool (with its "highschool hierarchy", bullies, teachers with no sense of humor etc.) which was in the 1990s for me. It gave me the feeling that I am glad that I don't have to go to highschool anymore.

Did you also get this feeling from watching The Breakfast Club? Or did you get the opposite feeling, that you would love to go back in time to the years of highschool?

[–] jmiller1982 10 years ago

My high school years (1996-2000) absolutely sucked, & don't particularly care to relive them

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[–] Ditto-head 10 years ago

I'm really glad high school is over for me. I wouldn't go back for anything.

[–] gabby_bm 10 years ago

high school was a great place to pick up chicks and find out where the parties were going to be. I had plenty of fun at high school but that's because I never took any of it seriously. I would have to say that high school was never the problem It was being a teeenager where most of my problems originated.

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[–] rj_88 10 years ago

I'd buy this guy a beer! High School was great. I'm 25 now and sometimes miss the carefree days of playing football, looking forward to someones older brother buying a keggar for us or getting a case of beer, getting high with my buddies and walking around the mall eating auntie annes pretzels; and looking for the next big party in the surrounding towns I was always invited to.

Sucks some of ya'll didn't enjoy highschool. Luckily I was one of the popular guys but I was polite and well mannered to every "group" of people. Got along with the jocks becuase we lifted together and played sports, got along with the popular girls because i was clean cut and good looking(no bragging), got along with the punk kids because we liked the same type of music and I'd love any reccomendations they would throw my way and got along with the goth "nerd" geeks- because we liked the same type of movies and weird *beep* Always hated the theater kids though.. Hipsters of now-- pretentious arrogant pricks. Likely still virgins lmao

Best compliment I recieved was in English Honors class my teacher said I was exactly like Ferris Bueller lol. Told her I never heard a more sincere compliment in my life! Miss highschool for sure. Not in a Springsteen 'Glory Days' kind of way; but I definetly miss the carefree innocence and always looking forward to some crazy backstreet type of weekend we always wanted..I tell you now though, being 25, the girls who were maybe not cute or popular when I was younger turned out to be smokin' hot.

My Dad told me to always be polite and nice to everyone, no matter what they looked like- said I'd thank him later on in life. Also helped that he told me if he heard I made fun of anyone, regardless of whom, that he would be walking me to my first class for the whole year lol. I never made fun of anyone and always stuck up for people. The girls who may have had acne or weren't pretty when younger remembered the popular nice guy; it's paid dividends in my experience lol! :)

.... We danced like spirits in the night.

[–] RyanWOOT 10 years ago

I'm kinda torn on this. Yeah, my years in highschool sucked. I had very little friends, but a lot of acquaintances. I had no clue who I was, and I hated my years in highschool. I never went to prom, never dated, wasn't involved and rarely hung out with anybody outside of school.

But that's the whole reason I want to go back because now that I'm a completely different person, I want to experience all the things that I never got to experience. It's kind of weird, when I got out of highschool I started partying a lot and experimenting with drugs, and had a ton of friends. I experienced everything except sex(which I still havent done). Now at the age of 23 and a lot of my friends having been disbanded(minus a few of my closest friends) I feel like I've come full circle. The only difference now is that I have a very good idea of who I am and have no denial or doubts about myself like I did when I was younger.

Sorry for the long post, but I just re-watched this movie and it brought back a lot of suppressed memories from highschool. I had no idea how little, but at the same time how much I changed, if that made any sense.

[–] KingOfUtah 10 years ago

Ryan, I kind of feel the same way.
While I love my family, and my stage of life right now, I'd love to be able to go back and revisit those days, being who I am now.
I missed ut on so much, being a social introvert.
Watching movies like this, and American Pie, while they are funny, they also have a strange comfort to them, as I can go back to high school vicariously through the people on the screen.
And although, there weren't any people wearing cowboy boots and hats, listening to country music in those films, I still see a little bit of me in almost all the students.
It's a nice break from reality, even though, like I said, I love my life. I can come in off the farm, or construction site, or jump out of my truck, and be in the halls of high school, driving Kevin Myers' Chevy Celebrity, Oz's Bronco (Part 2), or things like that.
Bender reminds of my rock n roll side, Andrew reminds me of playing HS sports, and Bryan reminds me that I didn't have as much to worry about as I thought I did.

Great post.
Thanks.

Signed, Me.

[–] SuperNostalgicBrother 10 years ago

I'm the same way. I was an outsider in my days at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, WA (1997-2001). Now that I have become a different person since, I would like to see where I would fit in nowadays.

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[–] flower-power-11 10 years ago

Not really. I mean I didn't mind it but I would rather go to Hogwarts than go to any high school

[–] Catnip86 10 years ago

It depends. Do you mean relive it as it happened? Or a complete "start over"?

I'd probably like it if I could start again. In a different high school even. And would definitely make different choices than I made back then. Especially when it came to what high school to go to.

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