Flashback!
People who were terrible to me in Junior High are now friending me on MySpace/Facebook. I let go of that stuff ages ago, as that crap ca only define you for so long. But I always kept all my middle school angst front-n-center as those stories ended up being fodder for scripts. It's just odd to get the emails (which are filled with OMG YOU LOOK GREAT YOU LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD OMG OMG I SAW YOUR NAME!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111.) I have been tempted more than once to write back "that's great, do you remember when you terrorized me in the girls' locker room in 7th grade?" but eh, life itself is its own revenge, n'est-ce pas?
What should go here?
posted on Wednesday, Apr 9th by slackmistress
i totally understand this! people i really don't need to talk to are locating me on various networking sites and it's just disturbing. for a minute it made me rethink the things i post there, because i didn't want them to share in my new life at ALL, but you're right. life is sometimes its own revenge, so i just let them see me and think what they want to think.
because once i got over that initial bump, i don't think of them at all.
i've only had a couple random dudes who lived on my floor/in my dorm in college hit me up. s'no biggie...
sadly, the people i dug in grade/high school or college that i'd love to get back in touch with are scarce.
but then, maybe i'm 'that' guy you're talkin' about, who wants to relocate them and they'd rather not.
my friendships in junior high were so not healthy. girls are pretty mean at that age, and i sorta had fears of meeting boys. but in general, there are lots of people on Myspace and Facebook that i just didn't accept as friends, because we really aren't.
If we're to be judged on how we were in 7th grade, does that mean that I'm destined to remain a scrawny nerd forever?
One does wonder however, what makes someone write another person, whom they've not seen or heard from in 20 years and didn't really care for at the time, to tell them how hot they are. Maybe some people never grew out of 7th grade.
why even write back? actually you might want to get some closure "Hi - you were a total asshole to me in school. Please don't write to me again." short - to the point. or not. I'm a little cranky today :)
@Lams: HA! I thought about it, but honestly, I figured I didn't need to invite the negativity. It's easier to be nice, and in a cosmic sense...I win!
I think I *might* have told you this one before....one day about four years ago, right before law school, I was at a pub crawl with a friend in Manhattan. All of a sudden, these two random girls come up to my table. Not a common thing, I assure you - "stereotypically hot" girls just don't come up to my table at bars. But one asked "Are you [H55]? Did you grow up in [middleofnowhere], NY?" Turns out that they were both part of the popular girl clique that made fun of my friends and I all the time, and dated the guys that made our lives hell. They wanted to make amends. It was kind of surreal, but I also resented it a bit, for some odd reason.