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Is this your high school reunion @TAB? Its curious to know whats happened to people etc. You don't have to go. Its none of their business. My school has an alumni. My best friend walked out on me when I was diagnosed with schizoaffective. Before my MI journey I did however care for her when she had serious burns after she spilled a vat of hot oil on herself working at KFC. She had to take time off school and apply dressings. She achieved her dream of becoming a doctor after not getting a high enough Anderson score for her VCE and getting into medicine through the back door after studying health promotion and a brief stint in osteopathy. Wanted to wear a white coat for prestige she said yet abandoned me in my time of need. Came across a photo of her recently online and sorry to say she looks like a butcher. Probably hated her job but got into it for the wrong reasons

Um its Army reunion from very small sub unit.
seems not many going. Not many saying not going. I thought about leaving fb group but seems to be hard to do.

it dug up a lot of stuff made me realise things were worse than I remembered which wasn't brilliant anyway.
I know a lot of people on there, spoke to a couple. Was shocked some others didn't speak to me , so left it. Its in Queensland , nothing to be gained by going there for me. Some people I imagine would be hostile/dismissive. Pics of people same weight as 40 years ago. I was 1.5x then got bigger now 1.7x i was only in army 3 years lots of them 20 or more years.
they changed equipment and role as I was leaving , so a lot less people.
plus group starts in my last year. Surprised they looked me up. I dont know people running it. There are other people that were there in that year that no one mentions .

school came up a few years ago. I couldn't go and wont.
people have re invented themselves. I realised someone there beat me badly after king hitting me at drive in . Was like a bad American teen movie. He had 20 mates all footballers and 'cool' crowd I was the entertainment for the night. Got roughed up by his mates prior to main event. Guess I didn't back down. My parents never said a word. I tried to stay out of sight for couple weeks til bruising and swelling went down @Former-Member

Da da da dumm ... DNA from Beethoven's hair reveals new clues about what ailed him Well that was a fail re link. Article on ABC news app about Beethoven if you were interested @Appleblossom

@TAB all these high school reunions can conjure up bad memories. My school was highly disciplined the worst I got was occasional low scale bullying. But it happens in every school. I wouldn't go to the reunion based on my current diagnosis. Have nothing to show for my life so will just leave it. But yeah as for school the cool crowd ain't always so cool. I suspect people were spreading rumours about me at school. But now that I remember there were kids that used to beat the crap out of eachother. That army get together doesn't sound the best. Too far away in Queensland anyway. Sorry to hear about what happened. I would be concerned about the way I look too. I have ballooned over the years on psych meds and have not been happy with my appearance. The weight is coming off but still....BTW My Dad was in the British Airforce in the 1950's. I don't know how he survived as he was brutalised as a child. But made his way through life. BTW I have been irradiating my blood using a laser. My blood glucose was 5.8 fasting this morning. Will check my blood pressure later but yes irradiating the blood works.

for me , re unions seemed like a good idea, then memories come back and you think hey I dont want to ever see those people again .. @Former-Member part of a process I guess, dig it up and let it lie there as have dealt with it , vs burying/denying bad bits , living with edited version in head ha ha lol

yes well done with your health stuff

Yes I did wonder if my friend who abandoned me in my time of need would be at a reunion. I didn't gel with many people either. I notice some people I used to know still kept their old highschool friends. I kind of moved away due to my schizoaffective disorder and now have got on with life. I had a friend I met in my 30's who kept all her friends from kindergarten onwards. I thought that was a bit strange tbh

.. it also occurs to me that I prob made some peoples lives unpleasant in past too and that they may not like the idea of seeing me again @Former-Member I remember bumping into people years after school with issues they hadnt dealt with, werent popular at school, went and got really good , stable well paid govt job , end up at pub in old home town having to defend self against people taking the 'p' .. they marched out .. pause and take a breath, then stood in half open door loudly stating 'I am not a side show.. ' ..before disappearing into the night .. thereby delivering their own coup de grace and creating catch phrase by which they will always be remembered . People can be mean.

I went to highschool in small country town @Former-Member moved there around age 13, they didnt know what to make of me, and I was used to peace of farm and not seeing people outside of school. I ran away to the Army. worse thing I could have done. in hindsight wasted 3 years of my life when should have kept up relationships with some schoolfriends

funny thing about country towns was odd couples who ended up together, it was like last man standing stuff .. 2 years after I left prob 80% of my class had left for work or study only farmers or people who somehow got a local apprenticeship stayed there. Was no local work then

Hope you had a good sleep last night @Former-Member and have a good day today 🌻.

Yes small towns would be like that. Now we have the internet and people meeting on the web for romance. Most friendships in the 80's 90's were situationships. I don't think I'd have anything in common anymore with people I used to know tbh. These days its easier for folk to join groups because of the way the world has opened up. I was left with no choice but to walk away from some friendships because my friends could not accept my ideology or friends who had passed on or friends that were less substantial and I was not getting needs met. Even if you had of not joined the army theres no guarantee your friends would have been permanent. We make choices. I know you regretted that choice joining the army @TAB