-- Posted by Complex Kid at 4:42 pm on July 2, 2009 Overall? Bad/Good? Could it have ended differently for you? What would that have changed down the road? Curious to read your stories. No need to read mine if you don't want to. I realize its long and rambling, just kind of thinking out loud here. ______________________________________________________ My Story: When high school ended I was not in good shape mentally. I had developed increasingly bad social anxiety which had led to depression, which had strained my relationships with my friends at the time. Not that long after graduation, I had a falling out with most of them, and I really haven't talked to or had any real contact with them since. This is two years now. I think the whole experience of being out in the cold, so to speak, really matured me, toughened me up. Suddenly, these people I'd known my whole life would have nothing to do with me, and it was all my fault. Suddenly I had no social connections, no real friends, after all that time, all that work. It got worse before it got better, but I did pull myself up, got through my mental/emotional problems for the most part and made a better life for myself. Still, sometimes I think I should have made more of an effort to reconcile with them. I sometimes wonder that if I had just apologized for the whole thing, instead of basically disappearing on them, maybe I could have had some closure. I sometimes wonder if it would have made any difference at all. I ran into one of my old friends in a restaurant earlier this year, turned her back to me, wouldn't even look at me. I wonder if that connection, that network, would have supported me more through the last few years, as opposed to the lack of social connection turning me into the loner that I have become. But that has had its benefits, too, I think it made me grow up faster in a lot of ways. -- Posted by heyitnat at 4:43 pm on July 2, 2009 I'm still in it! .. :/ -- Posted by BrittBee at 4:44 pm on July 2, 2009 I left the graduation ceremony saying peace the fuck out, assholes...literally, it felt great. -- Posted by Lucid Nightmare at 4:44 pm on July 2, 2009 I'm still in high school. My advice to you is to try and move on. There's not really much you can do about the whole closure thing if you can't contact them. By all means do it if you can, but if you can't, try and move on. -- Posted by FurryCupcake at 4:49 pm on July 2, 2009 Baaad. I transferred out of my public school at 15 and into a cyber school because I was bullied and the school was shit and I didn't want to take it anymore. By the time I graduated, I was a total mess. Took me quite a while to recover and I'm still not totally stable yet. ._. -- Posted by jsia at 4:50 pm on July 2, 2009 I thought it was gonna be this massive party then I'd wake up the next day and kinda say...now what? But it wasn't, I couldn't even tell you when it ended exactly because there were 'last classes' and 'last assembelys' and then after you had actually finished I still had to go back again to properly sign out...then I was thrown into feeding a few hundred head of cattle every single morning because we were in the middle of a drought. -- Posted by blitzerdog at 4:59 pm on July 2, 2009 I said peace out. And all the friends I thought I had really shrinked down to 3. So I said fuck it, and I am goin out all summer long and partying this shit up at college. -- Posted by Vana at 4:59 pm on July 2, 2009 I was in the middle of leaving my boyfriend of 3 years -- Posted by xoxsincerelyme at 5:00 pm on July 2, 2009 It ended great. I can't remembe to much of that night..so that hast to mean I had a blast. -- Posted by morrisonsMYmuse at 7:57 pm on July 2, 2009 it was ok. i was a little sad.. but really excited to be going off to college and starting a new chapter of my life. i still keep in touch with most of my high school friends, so it wasn't a huge thing for me. -- Posted by pokekait at 9:30 am on July 26, 2009 High school was crap for me so I was excited to get out. I still keep in touch with 2 of my best friends from high school reguarly, that's about it. I went to a high school where I grew up my for my freshman year then had to move because my parents wanted to (no joke) between freshman and sophomore years. I never really recovered from that and it really held me back. But I went to a school where everyone had known everyone else since preschool. It was depressing but when I got to my senior year I wanted it to be halfway decent. I now attend college on opposite corners of the state from my 2 best friends. I go to school in Memphis, while they are in Chattanooga, TN (SE TN) and Johnson City, TN (NE TN). I'm depressed a lot in college and my parents have pretty much abandoned me. It sucks. But I sorta just rambled there...sorry lol, but high school was just sorta meh for me.   Class of '08 -- Posted by foody at 9:20 pm on July 28, 2009 what a waste. it left me unprepared for college -- Posted by Bona fide at 4:03 pm on July 31, 2009 My whole experience of high school wasn't a great one. There were ups and downs, but most of it was pretty glum. Despite this, I left on a high knowing that I would never have to go back, keep in contact with the majority of people and knowing that I would go on to do something much better - i.e. starting University.