1000 people I knew died today

[worth]

So today was the last day of high school for me. Sure, I may have not been friends with all of the 1000 people, or I may not have even known them very well; and it is true that I will still see some of those people, in the future. Yet, each of those 1000 people has its own certain image in my mind--and most of these images will be useless from today. Most likely, I will not get to see more than 100 of them, ever again. In my life.

In a way, these people are dead, from my point of reference; they are gone, since I will never see them again. I wonder if there is a way to clear your mermory of people...

It makes me sad... although, I try not to regret my past decisions.

 

[RossMAN]

Just before graduating from High School my friends and I were confident we'd stay in touch indefinitely. Well that lasted about 4 months then we just kinda lost touch with one another. I still keep in touch with my closest friends and I'll get to see the other lamers this August at our 10 year high school reunion!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Graduating hit me pretty hard. The only choices you have are to work at staying on contact with them, or trudge through being more alone. Good luck.

nik

 

[Beau]

It took a good three months for it to really set in with me. It actually wasn't until school was starting back up the following fall that I realized that I would probably not see a lot of them again. But, keep in mind, there's always the class reunion

 

[Wallydraigle]

I have been out of school for five years now and I haven't spoken with any of my old friends since then. A couple years ago I had a series of dreams about them but they were not as I remembered them, they were as they might be today. It was really weird.

 

[djheater]

Welcome to disenchantment. These feelings of listless ambivalence will be your companions till your mid-life crisis... get used to it.

 

[sheselectric]

Wow...these people are "dead" to you now? That's kinda harsh. I graduated 4 years ago and knew I probably wouldn't talk to most of these people ever again, but if I'm ever at home and run into someone, I'll chat with them. Don't be so pessimistic. Life is a long series of goodbyes, but none of your classmates should be "dead" to you.

 

[morkinva]

boy what a misleading title !

Too much influence from 'moonbeam' i think

 

[vash]

High shcool friends are a set of people you may or may not hang out with for the rest of your life. In my case, all of my high school friends are the ones I still keep in contact with on a regular basis. Everyone else I knew in high school I don't have contact with, only the cloest of the close.

vash

 

[nihil]

Originally posted by: sheselectric
Wow...these people are "dead" to you now? That's kinda harsh. I graduated 4 years ago and knew I probably wouldn't talk to most of these people ever again, but if I'm ever at home and run into someone, I'll chat with them. Don't be so pessimistic. Life is a long series of goodbyes, but none of your classmates should be "dead" to you.

I think he means that they are dead, metaphorically speaking. As in they have spent their time together and now he is moving on, hence, those memories of people are all he has since the actual people are now "gone."

 

[trmiv]

You'll get over it. You'll keep in touch with the people you truely want to keep in touch with, and the others you probably weren't really friends with anyway. I've been out of high school since 1994, and I still keep in touch on a pretty regular basis with my 3 closest friends from High School, and I really don't care if I ever seen 98% of the other people from high school again. I've kept touch with the people that mattered to me.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I took it to mean that even if he meets up with them again in the future it won't be the same, because his friends will have changed, and won't be the same people he used to know.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: lirion
I took it to mean that even if he meets up with them again in the future it won't be the same, because his friends will have changed, and won't be the same people he used to know.

Very true. It's amazing the transformation people make after graduating from high school.

 

[amdskip]

Just think if you didn't have the internet to chat and email friends. I've been out of high school a year now and I have noticed that most of the people who said they were moving thousands of miles away from here are still here

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

There always are the reunions and I'm graduated so a lot of people I knew/know I dont have contact with. But you will run into the random classmate once in a while. I was at innout many months back (just before 02) and ran into one of my friends from a Summer School PE class 2 summers earlier!!! What a coincidence. Random things happen like that. I wisheed her luck with her college applications (A year younger than I am) and we were on our ways again. I sort of hope we bump again but it was nice. Very nice young lady, I really liked that girl.

They arent really dead to you. Just could be forgotten untill you see them again.

 

[N8Magic]

I may be a rare case, but most of my best friends 7 years after graduating from high school are the same people I hung around with in high school. My other friends are generally people I met in University.

It may be more of an effort to stay friends with the peeps from high school, but it doesn't mean they're gone as soon as you step outside on the last day of school.

 

[worth]

I didn't mean dead as if I simply didn't care about anyone that went to my high school... I simply meant that these people are but static images in my mind, that I will probably never associate again to a real person.

At this moment, mostly everyone seems like a character out of a book with no sequel. They will remain the same person in my mind, and never change... never to be seen again.

Maybe I feel like this just because I'm listening to "funk porcini - purrfect" or maybe it is that I regret not talking more to a certain person... And now, the person has vanished, never to be found again.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I found an old friend's email address the other day. I thought it was pretty cool, but I never wrote because I realized that there was absolutely nothing I wanted to say to him

 

[Booster]

I hated my former classmates, and they almost spat at me. Thus, you can guess I was pretty happy when I could finally leave school and never see them again! And, believe me, I don't care what happened to them .

 

[StageLeft]

download 'everybody's free' by baz lutherman (?).

BTW in 5 years today will be just another memory. To a one all the people I know stopped giving a crap for those in high school sometime during first year university.

 

[joohang]

All my current close friends are coworkers and good friends from high school.

Graduation was no big deal for me.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: Booster
I hated my former classmates, and they almost spat at me. Thus, you can guess I was pretty happy when I could finally leave school and never see them again! And, believe me, I don't care what happened to them .

All of them? You didn't try to make friends? Anyways, I am gonna be a senior next year, and am not really looking forward to graduation. I have made too many friends that I know I won't keep in contact with that many of them.

 

[Scuttle]

I intend to keep in touch with my best friend, I took the chance this Summer of getting out of school and going to College instead, he's staying at the school.

There's a group of people i'll miss, but I had a mostly awful time there (which is why i've launched myself at getting in to College instead) and hate a large amount of people there. I've got an old friend who I met coincidentally during my college interview and he's going for the exact same course as me...i've not seen him in a year other than then.

If there are people you want to stay in touch with, make the move now. It's better than being here at 50 going "Damn, I wish i'd kept in touch with Johnny Biggs...I sure miss that guy".

 

[MajesticMoose]

I graduated high school last year. Over the summer, my group of friends got even closer. When everyone went off to college, we stayed in touch pretty well for the most part. Tonight A bunch of us(except for that one dork that sleeping) are getting together again just like before. I don't really see us getting too distant for the next couple years atleast, so i'm not too worried.

 

[GermyBoy]

In a way, I killed about 1000 people when I graduated. I went out of state so I wouldn't see them.

You gotta hook up with as many girls that you want in HS while you're still in HS, because once they go to college, they get the freshman 50 and are no longer hot. Don't get them pregnant though, especially if you don't want to marry them.

Anyways...I talk to only 4 people from my high school. I disowned my cult followers, and only see 1 of them regularly (we bike daily, he's my lazy friend mentioned in another thread [search need workout to find thread]). Was 5 people, but after I dumped her (started dating sophomore year in college, ended next summer) we stopped talking (my choice) .

Take care!