Graduating High School. I feel so sad.

[Hyudra]

Wow, it's time to graduate high school, and I know everyone will be departing away. I feel sad about it. I just got the yearbook and I look at everyones face, and everyone is so happy, I feel happy for them. I know I'll meet new people, but I want to keep the friends I have. I feel stuck, unsure what to think or do. Has anyone faced what I am going through?

 

[Orsorum]

Everyone has. You'll feel much better in time... nothing beats a little bit o' nostalgia, though.

 

[sheselectric]

I didn't face it much when I graduated from high school, but now that I'm graduating from college I'm really sad. I'm moving away from everyone I've loved for the past 4 years, and I'm trying not to think about the fact that I won't be with my friends anymore come August. But you have to accept the passage of time as a sad fact of life. As my dad says, "Life is a long series of goodbyes."

 

[BCYL]

yeah I felt the same way when I graduated high school... even though most of my friends go to the same university as I do, I rarely see them anymore cuz the campus is so big...

But we still call a reunion once every couple of months to see how everybody is doing...

Just try and stay in touch as much as possible... Instant messaging programs are a very effective way to do this...

 

[AreaCode707]

With the miraculous event of IM, distance isn't so bad anymore. I'm wrapping up my first year of college and I'm still pretty tight with most of my friends back home - all it takes is some effort. And I've made friends here at college too, who I'll keep in touch with over the summer using IM. It's not as bad as it appears, though things will change.

 

[Martin]

not me. I mean, not seeing the people everyday will be sad, but its time to move on. I'm bored of HS and need to move.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I was extremely happy to be out of my high school. I moved there as a sophomore, thus I hadn't grown up with the people in my HS, and frankly I didn't have many strong friendships with anyone. I had also finally broken up with my gf of 2.5 yrs about a month or two before graduation and was antsy to get far away from her. Besides, I've visited my town recently and ran into some old "friends". I pretty much wouldn't be hanging with them now anyway.

Now, however, I'm fast approaching my college graduation and do feel sad about that. The people here are splendid folks who I've had lunch with, studied with, hung out with and lived with for the past 4 years. (1 more year to go). 1/2 of my friends have left, and I'll be seeing off the other 1/2 in a year.

 

[Koing]

I've finished and only have exams left.

I'm off to Uni in September can't wait to go. Going to meet so many new people. I'll keep on touch with my friends, got there numbers and such etc etc.

 

[rpc64]

With the miraculous event of IM, distance isn't so bad anymore.

I thought it would be easy to keep in touch with my friends because of IM and email and all that. But everyone sort of slowly stopped logging on and stopped emailing, and I haven't heard from most of them in a long time.

 

[Geekbabe]

AS new doors open, others close but if the friends you met in HS are good ones, the door's just closed for a time,not permanetly locked !

 

[pyonir]

i was glad to get out of high school. couldn't stand anyone there anyway.

 

[Braves]

I was thinking the same thing. Granted, i'm only a junior, but I feel right now as though I've wasted the past two years of high school. This year was so fun socially (academically, not so fun) that I wish it was freshman year

 

[joohang]

It was just highschool.

What I did notice was that college kids were more immature than high school kids, though.

I still hang out with my close friends from high school and all my new friends are coworkers.

 

[nihil]

I guess you're the only one that was sad about that. I couldn't wait to get out. There's way too many politics involved in going to high school. Even if you're not involved in them you always seem to get sucked into the madness. =\

 

[The Wildcard]

Sure you'll miss high school during that first summer after graduation.

BUt, when you start going to your college classes, you'll REALIZE that:

1. College girls are alot hotter than high school girls

2. College classes are better cuz most classes don't meet every day. They only meet on Mondays and wednesdays or tuesdays and thursdays. So basically, you can schedule your classes so you can have a 3 or 4 day weekend. Yes it is possible.

3. College classes are a helluva more interesting than high school baby classes. You actually can take classes that YOU WANT to take, instead of having a school system dictating it to you.

4. You get to meet and make alot more friends than you could of in high school.

And best of all?

5. Colleges on a "semester" system get a 5-week (that's more than 1 month!) christmas vacation as opposed to a lame 1-2 week vacation in high schools, and your summer vacation starts earlier as well. Colleges on a "quarter" system don't start school until late september or early october.

 

[Supermercado]

Of course. Everyone that has graduated from high school or left a group that has been together for a while has felt the same way. You still want to keep in touch with the people you've spent the last four years with - and some even longer from elementary and middle school. You'll go to college and meet a ton of new people. Everyone on your hall freshman year will be your best friend, I can almost guarantee it. Just about all of the people I know at school now, I either know from my hall freshman year or have met through them.

You'll still be seeing your high school friends over breaks, though, right? Unfortunately for me, we moved a month after I graduated high school, but my closest friends, I've kept in touch with on AIM and talk to them on a daily basis for the most part.

Either way, once you get to school in the fall, you won't forget about your old friends, but you'll meet a ton of new people and have new adventures, experiences, whatever.

 

[KennyTheGreat]

i just started high school
but i had a feeling of how u leave a of school
i graduated from junioir high last year.

it's gunna be allright

just u'll miss a lotta people

best of luck i the future!

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

after HS, I've pretty much lost most of my close friends

You know, its when you're young you feel the most free, most open, and most honesty from yourself and others you hang around with. Its not as easy to find friends truly worthy of making and maintaining a friendship with. I'm picky when it comes to making friends. I guess there are only a select few that I'm compatible with. *shrugs*

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

I was happy when i got out (June 01). I knew I would loose contact with some people but i didnt really care as they werent really great friends of mine and i will probably see them agian somewhere some time, or atleast, MAYBE at a reunion. Definatley skipping the 5 year if there is one though.

The friends that i am making in the JC right now are just as good as HS.

 

[xirtam]

I just finished my first year of college.

Be glad you had friends in high school. Enjoy the memories. Try not to let the relationships die.

I pretty much lost contact with everyone I knew from high school. Come to think of it, I don't think I have any significant relationships at college either. Some aquaintances and some good times, but you know how it is.

Then again, maybe you don't. Perhaps you're not a loser. : )