OMG, what a broken generation am I from!

[Haltickling]

Just came back from a school reunion, as my old school celebrated its 100th birthday today. Our last reunion was 8 years ago (20 years after my graduation), and what has become of my former classmates?!

Of a class of about 30, three are dead, about half of them had cardiac infarctions (including me), and 10 had major surgeries (kidney transplatations, cancer etc). Eight of us are unemployed (also including me). What I've heard of the 3 parallel classes, the statistics are about the same there. And we're all just about 47 (give or take 2 years)!

Not considering our graying (or receding) hair and growing bellies, which just come with age, I've come to the conclusion that my generation is aging and breaking down absolutely too fast!

Makes me depressed, but OTOH it makes me fully aware that I'm not the only one with problems. What a sad world!

 

[milagros317]

Hal, I went to my 35th high school reunion last year (2003), and I had the same feeling. Too many classmates had died, had seen their spouse die, or had major medical problems. 🙁

 

[qjakal]

Old...

At my 25th everyone looked very good, actually. My 35th is coming in a few years...guess I'll have to see how the last decade has been treating everyone.

Chin up Hal...maybe you've all gotten the hardest part over with for a few decades and it'll be smoother sailing from here on...

Q

 

[natural tickler]

Well,I'll be going to my 15th this yr, but to me it isn't really a reunion, because like a lot of people that ever graduated, we don't know how to leave and branch out. So basically, we see a classmate almost everyday. We all will treat this as a night on the town😀

 

[BigJim]

I feel exactly the same Hal, and I'm only 26! 😱


I have to say though, that there is no chance of me ever going to a school re-union. I would be too tempted to commit mass-murder.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

I feel exactly the same Hal, and I'm only 26! 😱


I have to say though, that there is no chance of me ever going to a school re-union. I would be too tempted to commit mass-murder.

BINGO! give that man a cigar(and a beer)!
my class is having it's 30th reunion in oct. i know several have died, good riddence. the cheer leaders are all ugly now(and incredible bitches back then), and the jocks are fat and drunks.

and seeing as i was skipped over for the 10, and 20 year reunions, i'm amazed that i was contacted for the 30th.. i'm passing.

steve

 

[Haltickling]

Oh, I've had my share of problems with my class mates as well, but people change. Former bullies have developed into docile family fathers, former idiots became quite average people, and everybody has softened considerably. I think that's part of the ageing process to become more moderate and a bit mellow.

We all had a tremendous time rehashing the pranks we used to play on our teachers. Strangely, remembering all the mischief we caused is much easier than remembering the stuff we were taught! 😛

One of my teachers from 6th grade was also there, he'll celebrate his 100th birthday in a few weeks. Must have been a tougher generation...

 

[natural tickler]

Well, come to think of it, I might go to mines, there a couple of people I haven't seen or heard from since we graduated... but everyone else, hope they take a long walk on a short plank!!!!

 

[BigJim]

We all had a tremendous time rehashing the pranks we used to play on our teachers. Strangely, remembering all the mischief we caused is much easier than remembering the stuff we were taught! 😛

I'd have a great time remembering how I was bullied so badly that I tried to commit suicide twice and was driven so fucking bats I ended up self-harming. It's not so much the other kids I remember with hatred, it's the teachers. School teachers get paid a lot more hansomely than college lecturers and they get a lot longer time off than police officers do. A head teacher here is on between seventy and eighty grand (British pounds), depending on the school. But no, it was too much to expect the useless bastards to actually earn their living and do a day's work, they were too busy just turning up for the salary and exerting their authority. Funny thing that. Someone can have three ribs broken by bullies, yet the teachers will do fuck all about it. Yet parents of said bullied child can withdraw the child from school for his own safety and be threatened with imprisonment, because the school reports them to social workers.
Yet if said bullied child actually used their brain in class and said something the teacher found challenging to their intellect, it's be their knee-jerk reaction (and that is fucking jerk, with a capital fucking J!!!) to slap him down or regale the class with at least three reasons why said child won't amount to anything more than a street sweeper. Why do so many highly qualified "professionals" feel the need to humiliate or exert intellectual authority over a 12 year old? Is it something fundemental to their self-esteem? Does it give them a hard-on? Do they have to do it a certain amount of times every term to get a bonus? Or are they just mostly fucked up individuals, with little or nothing in the way of actual intelligence, who react that way because their fucking minds are so fucked up that they act like a fucking pack animal in the fucking wild, because they've actually the fuck forgotten to fucking evolve?


Apologies to anyone here who is a competent and dilligent school teacher. No offence intended to you. If any of you however used to be teachers of mine, you're lucky I didn't grow up into a fucked up individual like you, who ends up following people he has a grudge against and shooting them years later. Yes, despite your best efforts to completely fuck up my life, I am reasonably balanced and only rarely come out with sputum like I just did.

 

[BigJim]

Someone please tell me...

... how it's possible for someone to look like a jock, but have the athletic ability of an asthmatic ant carrying some heavy shopping and the brain and personality of a library nerd?


Shit, maybe I was the fucked up one...

 

[The Sean Man]

Re: Someone please tell me...

... how it's possible for someone to look like a jock, but have the athletic ability of an asthmatic ant carrying some heavy shopping and the brain and personality of a library nerd?

To quote Alanis: "And isn't it ironic, don't ya think?"


The Sean Man

 

[The Sean Man]

Someone can have three ribs broken by bullies, yet the teachers will do fuck all about it.

Just before eighth grade, my parents transferred me to a new school, where my new classmates were much wealthier than I. A small group of them dealt me and several others physical pain on a daily basis. I spent my evenings at home dreaming of how i could injure myself so that I wouldn't have to go to school the next day.
One of my teachers was also the prinicipal:

1) He had received complaints from many students and parents about the troublemakers.

2) He WATCHED some of these things occur in the classroom, namely one of those fucks nailing another student over the head with one of those big-ass dictionaries.

3) I had a talk with him about it, and he understood completely what was going on. So understanding that he moved my desk right next to theirs, where they immediately set upon tipping my desk over, and kicking my things all over the floor.


What did he do about it? Nothing.

Years later, I'm successful, well adjusted, with a sense of humor that pretty much defines me. I wish no ill will on anyone...except that fucking bastard who let them get away with it.

Join me for a drink, BigJim?


The Sean Man

 

[BigJim]

How about several? 😉


I just re-read what I wrote a few hours ago, and I'm still saddened that I havn't been able to let go of the aggression I feel over this. I'm not a fatalist by any means, but I do believe we pull towards ourselves experiences and people who teach us what we need to know and realise. Everything that happened to me was for a reason. It goes deeply against things I hold to be true and important to still retain such negative feelings. I always believe that holding onto negativity, especially in such long term, does nothing but poison yourself. It pisses me off that 11 years after I left school (or to be more accurate, 11 years after I was removed from school due to a breakdown) I'm still carrying the poison around with me.


Sorry Hal. Complete hi-jacking there.

 

[The Sean Man]

I hear ya BigJim, that kind of stuff is hard to let go of.
What really bothered me about that whole time was that I was in a Christian school, and those kids were standing right up there with me in front of the congregation in church as we were confirmed.
That's what started my questioning of my faith and overall belief in God and the Bible.
I guess the reason it still hangs with me is the question of why they had to be like that. It just doesn't make any sense.
Anyway, bottoms up! And now back to our regularly scheduled thread🙂


The Sean Man

 

[giantfan121262]

The people who did the tormenting, are not nearly as strong as you. A lot of them tend to fold when the going gets tough in adulthood. That is why they cling to their pathetic notions of who they were in high school. If these jokers ever had to endure half of the crap they dished out to you, they would have blown their brains out.

You are damn right about that, my friend. I know from experience. I had a bully from childhood torment the shit out of me up till I was about 15 until one day I went right back at him.

Let's just say that I wouldn't be surprised if he was still in the hospital today.

Getting back to the subject of this thread. I went to my 20 year reunion in 2001 and had the best time. I was debating going and since I blew off the 10 year felt like I should. I am one of those who branched out from where I grew up so it was truly a reunion for me. Even most the people I thought were jerks were actually all right. Those who remained jerks, I handled it one way, FIDO, (Forget it, drive on)

 

[BigJim]

Thanks tieler, I'll try and remember that. 🙂