Social regrets, have you a few?

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Fyrefox

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When I was in high school, the social cliques were pretty rigid; the college preps hung with their own as did the jocks, the socialites, and the cool people into the cutting edge of teen culture. But there was one woe be gone kid who didn’t fit anywhere, but just hung on me because I tolerated him, would walk to school with him, and allow him to eat lunch by me. The fact that I tolerated him diminished my own status with my own usual peer group. To be honest, he was a bit of an embarrassment, but I think I was the closest thing he had to a friend.

Well, I’m many years out of high school now, and never saw this guy again after graduation. We just entered our own orbits, and flew at different life trajectories. I never bothered to remain in contact with him, but wonder now what happened to him. And I regret having not gone the extra mile for someone who could have been a friend for life. I’m sorry, Andy, for the way I treated you. You could have been a better friend than those I thought I had…
 

Yep, for sure.....in my later years now, been thinking a lot on those growing years and so on after school/navy....class of about 22 peeps when graduated from small country town school.....not one soul has ever contacted me from that town..so I lived with it....I had a fanciful mind and I suppose that kept
people away from me....turned into a drunk while in navy, so
that didn't draw the right kind of folks...been sober 39 years now and still very few friends....but know this, I've got my
God and we do just fine together....
 
I often found myself to be a better friend..... then i got in return.
Doubt they learned to be better friends even after all these years.
i sometimes wonder what happened to this or that person but does not bother me enough to put effort into looking people up.
 
Well, I have one big one. A good friend of mine is wealthy and when my husband went bankrupt and had his house foreclosed upon, I felt very ashamed, and avoided her. It wasn't difficult because we live in different states. She has tried to get in touch with me via my children, but I didn't respond.
 
After the crap I've been through in life I have no social regrets at all.
 

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