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That kid from long ago

Finn

Finn

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There are days when I look back to my high school days and wonder about my old schoolmates. I know what many of them are up to, either through facebook or through the vineyard outside of facebook.

But after all those years, there is this one person I can't stop wondering about. He was this shy very pudgy (even more than I was back then) who actually stuttered in American Sign Language. He was incredibly intelligent who read legal papers (from his father's work IIRC) and dictionaries as if they were novels. Honestly, he could go far with the potential I saw in that kid I last saw twelve years ago.

He was about two years behind me, and due to his...social awkardness and being very sheltered, he didn't have many years. I once tried to keep him company at lunch time and I was bored out of my mind. When I first signed on to Facebook, I found one of his closest friend (only one of his two real friends) who still lives in the Hartford area so I asked her about him. She had no idea about his whereabouts or how he's doing (not a good sign, if she doesn't know, none of my other schoolmates would know especially the ones on my facebook friends list), except she commented that she didn't believe he was able to decide to what to do with his life.

So years pass and I still wonder about that quirky and shy kid who made me look like a crazy social butterfly having house parties every weekend. I don't know if I'll find out one day, perhaps when I return to my alma mater.

Do any of you guys have someone that you would wonder about with no way of knowing even if you are in touch with other people you knew during that period of your life?
 
Finn said:
Do any of you guys have someone that you would wonder about with no way of knowing even if you are in touch with other people you knew during that period of your life?
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Funny you should ask that. Every now and then, I think about some of the guys I knew in childhood and adolescence. One boy was very energetic and outgoing, and always wanted to be a disk jockey or radio personality. Another was shy, nerdy and into science fiction -- a bright kid who didn't seem to have much ambition or direction. Like me.

Oh, and there was another boy who was into makeup. No, not that kind. MOVIE makeup. Especially monsters and horror characters.

I wonder what became of these guys and sometimes I think it would be fun to try to locate and contact them. On the other hand, there's always the possibility that they could have grown up to be complete assholes.
 
I went to a private Catholic high school and had 42 girls in my graduating class.

I don't care if I never, EVER see or hear from any of them again.
 
It was pretty neat to be an inch of two taller and 50 lbs heavier( the good heavier) and wider in the shoulders than the guy that was the 'big guy' on the HS football team. I saw him in person though a couple of years ago, we graduated in 1991.
We were never enemies or anything. He was a really nice guy and all.
 
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It was pretty neat to be an inch of two taller and 50 lbs heavier( the good heavier) and wider in the shoulders than the guy that was the 'big guy' on the HS football team. I saw him in person though a couple of years ago, we graduated in 1991.
We were never enemies or anything. He was a really nice guy and all.
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Immature viewpoint... but it's a good feeling, isn't it? :lol:

I had something similar. A lot of people hadn't heard from me after high school, I just vanished and moved away. I bumped into the occasional person in a club I was a manager in a couple of years later, and the rest of them saw a picture of me in the paper and started to wonder how I'd transitioned from geeky fat kid to wrestler.

As for kids I've wondered about, where they are now...

There was one guy. Socially awkward and a fantastic liar. He would try and hide his own insecurities under layers and layers of unbelievable, uncontrollable lies. He thought he was a genius, and he was far from it, but was sure he'd always go far.

I've wondered how far he did get, or if he's grown out of his trying to impress everyone around him.
 
Social networking sites like Facebook do make it easier to re-connect with old friends, classmates and acquaintances (or, at the very least, cyber stalk them). An old childhood friend who moved away 15 years ago found me on Facebook. That was cool. Most of the people from high school who I actually liked (and a few that I was indifferent about) friended me, as well.

However, there are two specific people who linger in my mind. One is my best friend from childhood. I believe we met when we were 3 or 4, back in pre-school, and were friends up until we were around 11. His family moved away, we went to different schools, we saw each other only every once in a while, and eventually lost touch. I have no idea where he ended up. I've tried looking for him on Facebook or MySpace but apparently his name is common enough that there are many search results. I also really don't know what he'd look like after all these years, so a profile pic won't help.

I'm also strangely curious about an ex-girlfriend from high school. A first love, I suppose, though looking back it's very clear to me just how silly and innocent our "relationship" really was. I was incredibly awkward socially, terrified of dating, completely inexperienced and quite oblivious. We were friends, then dated, then friends again, then dated... I have no idea why our relationship was as strange as it was. All I remember is that I got tired of her "needing time to think" and broke it off with her just as we were entering college. I saw her on campus a few times but ignored her. I have no idea where she ended up. She doesn't seem to have a Facebook account and her MySpace page hasn't been touched in a couple of years. I told myself that if I ever reconnected with her, I would apologize for being an ass after our breakup.
 
I had a friend very similar to what the OP described.

We first met when we were about 6 or 7 in first grade and were friends until freshman year of high school. We weren't terribly close because he was just so awkward that it was embarrassong to be around him for too long. After freshman year, I transferred to a private school and never heard from him again. When I reconnected with an old friend a few years ago, I asked him if he knew how the guy was doing. He told me he had no idea where he was, adding that he just seemed to disappear after freshman year. I've tried looking him up via Facebook and MySpace, but he doesn't seem to have a page on either site. I've also tried the Google thing, but that has yielded nothing as well.

I think it would be interesting to at least find this guy. I really don't know what I'd say to him after all these years, we didn't hava a lot in common, but it would be interesting to see what he's up to now.
 
God do I have that.

My best friend in elementary school...really, one of my first friends, one of the only friends I could be sure was a friend. We met in first grade - I was gawky, disabled, a pudgy kid even then...Everybody seemed to consider me super-smart. He was almost my polar opposite in looks, but somehow we bonded really quickly.

Unfortunately, he moved away when we were in 4th grade, when I was 10. I didn't see him after that, I don't think.

Even with his name being really common, I've looked for him on facebook and the like. Nothin.
 
I've thought more than once about my first girlfriend and her twin sister (who I cheated with). I've tried to find either one several times with no success.
 
I used to be frieds with a short, overweight, bucked-toothed, thick glasses kid with a bad haircut. Years later he showed up in a grocery store, taller, no glasses (as I recall), not fat, some muscles, and a fairly attractive girl hanging on him. Big difference! So, in that case I didn't have to wonder.
 
ya know, even tho it hasnt been to long ago, I begin to wonder about some of the people I knew, one in particular was a girl I knew a few years ago, met her through some family friends and we became slightly more than friends, then after she graduated HS, she moved on to college(she was on the deans list her Freshman year of college), we caught up with each other from time to time and then about oh 3 years ago, she fell completely off the grid. No one me and her knew knows what happend to her, cant find any info on her past 06 on the Internet.

oh what I would give just to know.
 
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I was actually thinking about someone i went to college with, several years ago. We only knew each other for a few months, but he was a good guy. Plus, he was really hot too. :lol: Too bad i cant remember his name so i cant even look him up on FB.
 
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