>If I had asked her out in junior year, she'd have become my high school sweetheart. No doubt, no doubt in my mind. You better believe things would've been different. >I'd have gone full normalfag, I'd be living with my high school sweetheart turned wife. You know, in a house together, cuddling while watching films on a big TV screen.>Don't you ever wish you could go back? With all the knowledge you have now
>>215133925i have a sneaking suspicion we get the world we deserve
>>215133925I'm glad I asked her out and got rejected so now I can be a degenerate neet without the "what if" feeling.
>>215134014Based shot taker.
>>215134014This. Fuck regrets, I’m living in the moment. Gonna chow down on in n out laterr, watch Candyman, do some lines, see where the night takes me
>>215133925Why are americans so obsessed with high school?
>>215133925She ended up marrying a guy who is now the Athletic Director of an SEC school. She is better off with him.
>>215133975>we get the world we deserveWith 8 billion of us, that cant possible be true.
>>215133925Literally most people on /tv/
>>215134248based sec chad
I was a fat skinny nerd in high school and was close to being evicted from my apartment when my mom lost her job. Moved out at 21 had a blast in my early 20s travelling and then made a fuck ton of money off the AI boom. I guess if you have a shit time in adolescence making up for it in adulthood is more satisfying
>>215133925if I coulda gone back, I'd have stayed a virgin for like one or more years tops and gotten loads of prime pussy in college rather than dating my ugly bpd ex who broke up with me at 25 at which point I made up for lost time and slept with like 20 girls in 2 years
>>215133925omg he's literally me... it's ok because i cope fap to all the shots i didn't take
>>215134217he's just like me
>>215133925>If I had asked her out in junior year, she'd have become my high school sweetheart. No doubt, no doubt in my mind. You better believe things would've been different.I got contact after 10 years after highschool and married to her. She cheated on me with someone from her office and we divorced, she then married that guy same year. Soooo yeah don't want something to happen that much because you might get it
I had a serious head injury when I was younger, and it had a lasting impact on my long-term memory. I don't remember anything about high school. Whenever I see my childhood friends, they tell stories that I can't even remember, and I have to play along and pretend like I do. In college I apparently hooked up with a girl who in my mind doesn't even exist, I don't remember anything about her. My short-term memory is fine so long as there's repetition. So I don't really have any regrets since I don't remember shit. It's kind of nice to be honest.
I did ask her out and we did date but shortly after she left me for another woman and came out as gay and that did some irreparable damage to my brain. They're still together 15+ years later and you can probably guess what became of me
>>215134014Nice.
>>215133925There’s only one girl I’m hung up on and it’s the silliest one to be hung up on of all. Years ago in law school I noticed a girl in class and approached her one day. We had a brief chat as we walked to wherever we had to be (not sure what it was) and she was constantly laughing and seemed like an incredibly kind and fun person. I already thought we were really hitting it off but then she suddenly pretty much forced me to take her phone number before we went our separate ways. “Well, that was easy” I thought, and I texted her soon after. However, things changed immediately. In her replies she was still very friendly, but she seemed to have zero interest in talking or getting to know each other at all, instead changing the subject to purely class related topics (something we hadn’t discussed at all during our talk) and quickly stopped responding. I tried again a few days later and the same thing happened. Then I didn’t contact her for a long time and never saw her on campus again. Much, much later I sent her another message to which she promptly and kindly replied, but in the same manner as before. That’s the last time I ever interacted with her.However, over the years I’ve created the pathetic habit of checking in on her online. She’s not particularly active on social media so there’s pretty much no personal stuff out there, but I managed to keep up with her through the social media pages of her various jobs. Eventually, some time after I last contacted her, I believed I had figured out who her boyfriend was, and that she was probably already with him at the time when I spoke with and contacted her. This killed my interest for a while. A year later or maybe more, I visited her theorized boyfriend’s social media page and he was definitely with someone else (a girl with neck tattoos who looked like a pornstar lmao). None of the girl’s family members followed the guy anymore either. 1/2
>>215134714Every once in a while I see if there’s new pictures of her, and there usually are (just never her own pictures). She’s NEVER with a guy in any of them, even if all the other people in the pictures are couples. I fantasize about running into her all the time (we live close by), but it has never happened.I have no idea why this particular girl has driven me crazy like this. I talked to her literally once and I remember that conversation better than some full actual past relationships. I really don’t know her at all. She might be a monster. She might be incredibly boring. We might not be compatible on any level. But most of all I don’t understand why she wanted me to have her phone number so badly. I’ve been on dates with girls I had a crush on for a long time that turned out to be massive disappointments. But for absolutely no reason it feels different with her. And it drives me crazy that I have her number right here in my phone but I can’t reasonably call it. I feel like a sailor dying of thirst looking at an ocean full of water knowing that he can’t drink it.2/2
>lose your virginity in 8th grade to a stacked girl who was like 7 inches taller than you despite being the same age because your growth spurt hadn't started yet>get way taller over the next several months, now no girls at school are taller than you>end up with a lifelong /ss/ fetish and all other relationships feel incorrect and wrong
Feels good having no 'what ifs' since I know it was never going to happen with any of them.
>>215133975Hello idiot
I had a serious head injury when I was younger, and it had a lasting impact on my long-term memory. I don't remember anything about high school. Whenever I see my childhood friends, they tell stories that I can't even remember, and I have to play along and pretend like I do. In college I apparently hooked up with a girl who in my mind doesn't even exist, I don't remember anything about her.My short-term memory is fine so long as there's repetition. So I don't really have any regrets since I don't remember shit. It's kind of nice to be honest.
>>215134950how do you feel about memento
>>215134884This. One good thing about being a literally autistic mega sperg is knowing every shot I missed was a bullet dodged. I cringe at my past enough, being in a relationship would have made me even more cringe.
>>215134535>>215134950Anyone else getting deja vu?
>>215134867Boo hoo. Imagine if you had that same fetish without any luck, and you’ve got me.
>>215134730Girls love impulsive guys. Just call her.
My junior year crush was a teacher. Mrs. Messina. Jesus Christ
>>215135224Yeah, or wait until she's leaving her house and jump out of the bushes with a knife. They love that stuff.
>>215135239>junior yearyou're basically an adult by then, that wouldn't be that interesting even if you fucked her
I destroyed all my old yearbooks because I wanted to become someone different after finishing school. Now I'm still a loser and can't even sink into teenage nostalgia, as the faces of my classmates slowly fade from my memory.
>>215135271I won't say I didn't
>>215134730Sorry about that Anon, but maybe you'll get lucky and run into her or maybe she'll reach out. Crazy things like that have happened to me. I was looking through my highschool year book one say when I was like 22 and remembered a cute freshman girl I talked to maybe one time when I was a senior and found her on Snapchat and ended up getting pussy out of it. She had grown up to be super hot and turns out she had a huge crush on me back then. Moral of the story is taking a risk and putting yourself out there works sometimes.
>>215134220In what way? What you do with the momentum after high school determines everything about your life. It's probably the biggest turning point in your life.
>>215133925Being married sucks. Sex sucks. You faggots aren't missing out on anything.
>>215134918Truth hurts
>>215134220By the end of high school, the social hierarchy is almost cemented and your personality is almost fully developed. If you were a weirdo loner in your senior year, chances are high that you’ll still be a weirdo loner as a full-grown adult.There are exceptions, of course, but it gets harder to break out of the mold with each passing year. At some point, your neurons become too rigid, and you're stuck with who you are.It's less about school itself and more about the age range and the social milestones associated with it. That's why loads of people fantasy about high school, thinking that they could have made a bigger positive impact on their future development as a person. One of the "social engineering" aspects of school is to gather many children of one age together to ease socializing and help them develop. A big classroom full of people is like training wheels for making friends. It's a lot harder as an adult.
>>215135759That wouldn't stop me, just make me even harder.
>>215133925Yes all the time. I agonise over it. But I try to remember that most people have some things in life they weren't prepared for. Most people have learned lessons a little later than when they really needed them. Sometimes it is the mistakes that teach you those lessons in the first place.
I'm married to my highschool sweetheart. It's pretty cool. We spent our 20s going to hippie jam concerts and taking acid and going to see like phish, now we have three kids. It's great. I do wish we had the kids a bit earlier now that I'm in it, mostly just cause I'll be an old fuck when they hit their 20s, but whatever. Everything worked out fine.
>>215135759>>215134220Only losers think like this. By the time I was in my later years of highschool I had basically dropped out, all of my friends including my now wife were from other schools, I only did half days and I only passed due to no child left behind. I spent a decade and a half abusing psychedelics and wasting every cent I had on concert tickets and weed and then when covid hit I moved 1800 miles across the country and now I make ~80,000 a year in a low income state with three kids as the only provider and we do fine. Life is easy, just don't be retarded.
I wouldve worked hard in school, got a academic scholarship and a cushy Stem degree/job and fucked off. I'm depressed because I'm broke, not because I don't have a GF. I care less about hoes.
>>215136064no you wouldn't have. The universe is one big shape and it's happened the same way 700 trillion times. You were always like this and you always will be.
My biggest regret throughout my entire school period is that I consistently blew off all my parents suggestions that I take band or orchestra or whatever. I had no interest in that shit at the time, and now in my 30s I regret not knowing how to play any kind of instrument. I could learn now, but it would take however much longer than it would when I was 10
>>215136157I can teach you how to play the skin flute in about five minutes cutiepie.
>>215136157Realizing that your boomer parents actually had a couple of solid pieces of advice is one of the worst feelings for me. They told me to spend less time on OTI, and now I still stuck visiting this hellhole of a site. If only I had listened.
>>215135976i’m convinced the only people still having kids are the psychedelic users at this point
>>215133925BET YOU I CAN POST A SHITPOST OVER ON THAT BOARD
>>215136296I've observed the same thing and I'm not that surprised. Going out and doing weird somewhat rare drugs requires initiative and money and then said drugs are mentally revelator.>tfw my kids are going to nuke india and change the national anthem of America to You Enjoy Myself
Sometimes I wonder the opposite. I married my girl from senior year. After college we moved in and went full normal fag outside of the Internet. Big house, six figures, buncha kids.Sometimes I wonder where I'd be if I stuck with the goth girl from junior year at the grocery store.
>>215133925>rewatched Napoleon Dynamite last week after 6 beers>depressed how much I related with Uncle RicoI just want to go back. If you had a good childhood, the best years of your life end after High School.
>>215136594>>depressed how much I related with Uncle RicoSame. Also, I really like how the movie depicts all the characters without any cynicism. It has a strange endearing quality to it.
every time I get rejected or one of my short-lived relationships implodes, I have to think about the first gf I had as a clueless 17yo. don't know if it's some kind of coping mechanism or if my brain is slowly turning into mush. getting really sad that I don't even have pictures of her anymore.it's tough out here.
>>215133925I'm still terrified of running into people from high school in public
>>215137007move halfway or all of the way across the country, or if you're a yurostarve move to a "different country"
>>215135558>>215135759hahahaha you people are fucking retardedUniversity is million of times more important to your future and to who you are than fucking high schoolthe thinking that highschool is that important to your personality and """"social hierarchy"""" is exactly the thing that's keeping you all from escaping your current situation lmaolosers, the lot of you
>>215137414>University is a million times more importantSorry to break it to you, bud, but the entire millenial generation has proven that wrong.
>>215137414your excel email job won't exist in two years and you will never get another one
>>215137488Ooooh I get it, you never went to university, so you think the degree is the only thing that matters about it? FunnyYour years outside of highschool are a million times more important than fucking highschool. You are retarded>>215137509I'm a tradesman, retard>Le AI will take ur jobs in just two more years!!!! you'll see it!!! Sam Altman will reveal AGI in just 72 more hours!!!! It doesn't matter that this has been the narrative pushed by them since 2022 and nothing changed!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHA AI is a bubble that's going to burst in a bit, and with it your entire economy, good luck!
>>215137653>I'm a tradesmanOh, cool. Me too. And I never went to college.I guess I win.
>>215137679You're obsessed about 4 years of your life, when your brain wasn't even fully developed. Doesn't surprise me you're thinking about winning or losing an argument on a mongolian basket weaving imageboard lmao>And I never went to college.Yeah, that's pretty obvious, anon
>>215137653>>215137769This person thinks he's intelligent and mature
>>215133925Man, shut up. Stop talking about my regrets.
>>215137769>you're obsessed withNo.You seem obsessed, though. You apropos of nothing decided to suggest college matters, and college is important. No one had even said it wasn't, and it's coming across like you're desperate to justify the time and money spent at a university.You've said it yourself>I'm a tradesmanWhich means you assuredly work alongside and presumably even work for people who didn't go to college, because you don't need to in order to work a trade. There's various trade schools, of course, but that's not the argument you started.
>>215134220Nips are too you dumbfuck
>>215134950Nigger, you've already posted here.
>>215134014I didn't ask her out during school but did a few years later and she said no then so my cope is she was always going to say no. That's what I tell myself, anyway
>>215135759What's the difference between "unwanted" and ones they "don't like"?
Anons, if it's any consolation, no world where you don't get married with kids is pleasant.You can have an easy 6 figure job with a good friend group in your thirties, if you're alone you'll still be miserable like me.
>>215136296I have 4 kids and do mushrooms. I'm also racist as all fuck.
>>215133925>Never had luck with girls, dated one for 3 months just to get her to stop asking me out but never did anything because I didn't like her *that way*>Girl moves here JR year of high school >Top 3 hottest girl in school, easily had the best personality of any of them>Makes every first move in our relationship short of explicitly asking me out, but she did do the "Hey anon, are you going to this thing I'm going to?" thing several times>Flirt pretty heavily - play fight, feed each other, sit in the same desk, she'd draw hearts and smiles and shit on me>Never actually ask her out or make any first move myself and would just kinda go along with what she'd do>She meets a guy 2 years older than us at a basketball game that I flaked on going to her with, who does actually aggressively pursuit her>They start dating, I become her backup BF / guaranteed male attention orbiter for 4 years>Her attitude never really changes around me and we still do the same flirting shit we used to until we graduate>Don't see each other as much after that but would still text occasionally>Starts texting me more, talks about relationship issues and gets more flirty>One day tells me "Hey get a snapchat so we can send funny pictures to each other :)">Sperg out, tell her social media is gay and just to text me when she was probably looking for an avenue to fuck around and monkeybranch to me without her BF knowing>Exchange reminds her I'm a retard who can't escalate relationships which was why we never dated to begin with, stop texting as frequently around that time and eventually all together>Breaks up with her BF in the same time frame as that happened, starts dating a new guy she met at work who she's now married to>Still say hi to each and talk in person a bit but we're not near as close as we used to be>Still probably the only girl I've ever met who I could have actually lovedWho will play me in the inevitable biopic?
>>215133925Nah I'm not a faggot. I'm not normally a nick fuentes fan but he had a great rant about this the other day. Basically, this is the life I wanted. I had many, many opportunities with girls I liked but never took them. I always wondered why. The reason why is because I prefer being alone. That's it. This is the life I prefered. I lived the life I wanted to. Now I am getting old and will look for a suitable quality girl to settle down with. But I got gaslit for so long into thing I should be le sad and something is le wrong with me and blah blah. Nah. Solitude is golden. Silence is golden. I love it. I live basically the life I want. If you are interested the rant is cozy .tv/nick/replays/2025-10-03_1 at 136:30
>>215138379So what is wrong with you? Do you have any idea
>>215138379Why are failed normies like this?
Met someone I legit felt a soulmate level connection with in my head and I chased hard even though she already had a boyfriend, I look like her celebrity crush and we are clearly each other’s types and I probably said exactly the type of shit she’s been waiting her whole life to hear but because she’s in a relationship with that boring faggot retard I had to get fucked overI guess I got what I deserved for being a desperate entitled faggot simp, right? Fuck you and fuck this world.
>>215138951Girls are never single anymore. They monkeybranch from one guy to the next and you're supposed to be able to mog her BF and/or emotionally manipulate her enough to make her want to jump to you. It's the same mistake this retard >>215138379 made.
>>215139034That’s exactly what I did, she actually did “emotionally” cheat and indirectly flirt with me and I’m pretty sure she was giving me more attention than her boyfriend in general for a while, but she didn’t end up actually reaching out and physically cheating with me
High school was a nightmare for me, but I’d love a chance to relive it. If I could go back with the knowledge I have now it would be awesome. Back then I didn't even try, now there's only the wage cage.
>>215139074ok i understood the joke after this iteration
Anyone else still have nightmares about high school? I'm 32.
>>215139311no, but sometimes I get nightmares about my limbs falling off.
>>215139073But you still have to be the one to explicitly make the first move. But at the same time can't be so overt where she'll go>Ummm wow Anon I'm not a slut I have a BFWomen want to be completely absolved of any responsibility or decision making.
>>215139311enjoy your next dream of starting a new semester but you forgot your class schedule so you have no idea which rooms you're supposed to be in
>>215139594NTA but mine are way more mundane than thatit's just having to go to class at all, not even that I don't know where I'm going or didn't study or whatever
With how my life goes, things would have turned out the same even if I did act.
>>215133975>>215133925>High School sweetheart>Gets older and is obsessed with Facebook/Instagram since you became a normalfag>Gets brainwashed and decides to cheat on you because she might be "missing out" on something better>You're in your mid 20s by then, life really hasn't even started and you're about to be a single dadIn the words of Morpheus: What Happened, happened. And couldn't have happened any other way.
>>215139311Not nightmares, but just regular dreams. And it's usually in the context of me still being roughly the same age I am now. I think it's just this idea of me being so stupid that somehow I never graduated high school, which is why I'm still there.
>>215139678being a single dad is stereotypically an easy way to score with women, so there's that at least
>>215133975its not about what is deserved. if you reflect on all the things that happen to you and all your choices, there is always "z happened due to y, y happened due to x" and you realize your life is railroaded
>>215139594>>215139635Mine is always somehow I'm back in my high school and trying to find a way out because I know I already graduated. Then when I finally leave I have to figure out how to get home since my car isn't there.
>>215139754I have one where I've graduated but for some reason everyone still thinks I'm going and expects me to be there so I have to like scramble for some way to "fake" it I think it's related to how often I would skip class as a teenagerStill graduated, though
>>215133925>mfw i peaked in middle school
>>215139311I had a sex dream about a girl I friendzoned in 10th grade recently
>>215138379This is how your typical manic pixie dreamgirl story would play out in real life.
>>215139353its ok anon i would protect u and feed u
>>215134730>>215134714Does this count as stalking?
>>215134640I'm 26 years old and a virgin.
>>215133925Wait… is that Benjamin Linus’s dad??
>>215135371Just start running or lifting Do something physical and your life becomes a videogameI was in the same situation and everything improved with just getting stronger and faster
>>215137414>>215137653You're indian or south american
>>215141478I can fix that uwu
>>215134220If you want to see a culture that is truly obsessed with high school then look at Japan. They always depict high school as the last moment of freedom in one's life. Post high school is treated almost like death.
>>215139842Hot, what did you do to her
