High School Do-Over

[Gingersnap]

What's something you would have changed for yourself in high school given your experience today.

Could be anything:

Class you took or did not take;

Clubs (joined or didn't join);

Good or bad friendships;

Good or bad romances;

Habits you acquired that you didn't wish you had or habits you wish had but blew off;

Opportunities missed or wrongly taken;

The sky's the limit here. What would you have changed knowing what you know today?

[william the wierd]

Not a whole bunch actually. I've only met one person from any of the three High schools I attended later in life.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

Not much in high school. College, a few things. High school was mostly pretty good.

[Gingersnap]

Not a whole bunch actually. I've only met one person from any of the three High schools I attended later in life.

But would you have branched off or pruned off? Would you have been more daring or less less risky in retrospect?

Gone for a gold ring or pulled it out of your nose?

[phillygirl]

I still sort of wished I'd graduated in 3 years. Other than the pre-law class I took, I didn't find a whole lot academically that was necessary in the fourth year and the only required class I think was the social studies requirement. All in all, it probably turned out for the best.

I wish I had kept up with my dancing, though. Not much I could have done about it.

[Lanie]

I wish I had been a better student.

[Gingersnap]

I wish I had been a better student.

You aren't alone.

The truth is that you have to study, takes tests, and practice no matter what you do:

Deal drugs, prostitute, rob people or

Get a day job, get promoted, finance your dreams.

The only difference is who is grading.

[Tom Servo]

Gosh, where to begin.

The usual stuff — I wish I'd taken better care of my body, and been at least a tiny bit more stylish. I had a thick full head of hair, the kind stylists charged extra to cut because it was so much work. But all I ever did was get a conservative southern bland cut. And by the time I found my individuality, my hair'd all fallen out and I'm bald as Mr. Burns. No biggie now, but at 19, it was not exactly a fun thing to live with.

I wish I'd kept in touch with the only other kid at my school who was thought to be gay. I never acknowledged my sexuality, and he was the only one out of hundreds who seemed 'different'. But he was a transplant and his parents moved after just a few months, so I never got to establish the friendship we were headed towards as two misfits in the same awful PE class. I always wondered how he turned out; he wound up transferring to one of the most conservative, proudly redneck rural schools in the county. Last I'd heard of him was some co-classmate of ours telling me "yeah he was a total fag at that school" which made me cringe. I don't even remember his name, so I can't look him up on Facebook.

Uh… One more thing, but I don't know how to talk about it. Karma's a bitch and I've been paying for some bad things I did as a youngster… and I wish I had been more careful about to whom I did those bad things. Evil, stupid, terrible things. Criminal things. As a big believer in karma I wish I'd had more foresight for how my life would suck today as a consequence of those things.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…

[scott]

I wish I hadn't blown off my senior year, only because it's embarrassing now. It didn't affect my future college choices much. I wish I would have behaved a little more for most stuff and broken the rules more in a few key spots.

While there are all sorts of things I would do differently now, I wouldn't be the person I am today had I not made those choices back then.

[Lady Marva]

While there are all sorts of things I would do differently now, I wouldn't be the person I am today had I not made those choices back then.

True enough. We are who we are because of past experiences, at least in part.

[Gingersnap]

True enough. We are who we are because of past experiences, at least in part.

I've heard this my entire life and and I believe it (maybe because I've heard it so much) but part of me thinks that different choices at various times would have resulted in a better "me" today.

I've gone through some idiocy that didn't actually make me a better person. It made me a different but not better person.