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Today I met the most popular girl in my high school class. Although it is a few DECADES later I still felt like that awkward high school girl and found it hard to string together a few sentences and sound normal while conversing with her. How come that feeling never goes away?
I’m pretty sure this topic applies mostly to the women and girls here but men feel free to add your opinion.
It sounds like you feel inferior to her she wasn’t better than you then and shes not better than you now, was she nice to you in high school? if yes than great if not than why bother to speak to her at all? the popular kid in my class was a jerk then and he probably still is, he treated me like garbage if i saw him today and he stopped to say hello i would either walk away or punch him in the mouth.
__ years later you wouldnt give him a chance? not even to say hello? Kids are kids and dont realize the power of their words or actions. He may have been completely wrong then, but you wont let him apologize or turn over a new page?
<OPINION> Because you care <i>to much</I> what other people will think about you, therefore you get lost. </OPINION?
Saysme this kid terrorized and bullied me all through grade school nothing he could say could ever make up for the damage he did to me.
Goq – Arrogant “popular” kids, don’t always stay that way, and often gain perspective when they get older. I personally know at least 2 or 3 such people. You should forgive ppl.
In response to commonsense, I vote for what Goq said at the beginning.
Commonsense: I remember learning about this in a psychology class. Even if a person overcame their feelings of shyness, inferiority, awkwardness, low self esteem, etc. and became a confident and self secure adult, they might still revert to their old feelings when meeting someone from their past whom they haven’t seen in a long time. It sounds weird but it does happen. It’s not uncommon. The mind works in strange ways.
So don’t worry. You’re perfectly normal.
<side whisper> Goq – if he’s still in the hood I’ll take care of him for you. Send me his initials in morse code. . .</side whisper>
Commonsence- as a man I can tell you that this has happened to me similarly. It’s weird. But hey.
LOOOL syag that was funny.
An article I read several years ago said that people attending class reunions revert back to the social structure and standing that existed in school.
Your feeling awkward around a class leader is completely normal.
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