25-05-2003 03:16									#31
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I wish.

	25-05-2003 03:50									#32
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

I haven't changed much, except by becoming a bit more detached from reality.

	25-05-2003 04:21									#33
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Azazel - You're 19 and not in the army?
???

Eli, we've still got the finals ahead....

	25-05-2003 07:28									#34
	Suffering from ads?

I like to think I dress better than I did when I was in high school.

I'm also less depressed and more easygoing.

	25-05-2003 08:24									#35
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Im more selective when it comes to socializing w/ people now. I was lot lenient with hanging out with different kinds of people, but now I shut people off unless I think they are worth my time.

	25-05-2003 10:11									#36
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

quote: Originally posted by Azazel I've gained 30 lbs in weight.

30 pounds! What did you do?

	25-05-2003 10:44									#37
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger 30 pounds! What did you do?

2 possible answers:

Gym or Mcdonalds.

	25-05-2003 10:47									#38
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

quote: Originally posted by Firelad Azazel - You're 19 and not in the army? ???

Atuda.

quote: Eli, we've still got the finals ahead....

I finished most of them last year. I have only 3-4 Bagruyot to do, no big deal.

	25-05-2003 10:51									#39
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

about 9% difference

	25-05-2003 11:34									#40
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

A great deal. I wouldn't go through the hell called "high school" again without my first and only love by my side. I miss him.

Last edited by GayGamer on 25-05-2003 at 11:40

	25-05-2003 11:57									#41
	Get a bigger avatar today!

Let's see. Graduated in 1989. Had two kids. Married for 12+ years. Graduated college with a BSEE, had seven jobs, including stay at home dad. Yeah, guess I've changed. NOw know there's no meaning of life, just live it. Love my wife and kids, didn't really have that through life. Dealt with divorce, birth, and death and am wiser for it. Feel bad only 24 hours in the day, otherwise would ruin many people's lives on this forum. Don't miss high school except my girlfriend.

	25-05-2003 12:06									#42
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

Even though my life in general was much better in HS than now, Only thing I really missed about HS was not having to worry about the future. Im a pretty care free guy but even so, as graduation nears I begin to worry about having to live in the real world. Even when I was in HS, I dont think I ever worried about college stuffs... Now entering the real world and seeking a job is bothering my mind a bit recently.

I miss the care free days.

	25-05-2003 14:37									#43
	Put an end to popups!

High school = Bad Azz

Now = Bad Azz

	25-05-2003 15:21									#44
	Inflate your Upload Space

quote: 30 pounds! What did you do?

ate too much, didn't get any workout, started driving around.

Duh.

	25-05-2003 16:10									#45
	Support Apolyton

I have a problem with the question since I'm still in High School

	25-05-2003 17:08									#46
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Married with children

Weigh more and am a self-adoring twit

	25-05-2003 17:53									#47
	Get a bigger avatar today!

Less friends, less money.

On the plus side, I live with my fiancee now.

	25-05-2003 17:56									#48
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

quote: Originally posted by Hippi I have a problem with the question since I'm still in High School

Ahh..youth..see..then this QUESTION would not apply to you then

Seriously, it was meant for Post-High schoolers my friend..

Peace

Grandpa Troll

	25-05-2003 20:27									#49
	Support Apolyton

hi ,

gosh , if it was only possible to turn the clock back , .....

have a nice day

	25-05-2003 22:41									#50
	Increase the size of your Attachments

hmmmm what hasn't changed ??

I graduated high school in 1986 as a pretty athletic skinny guy who was painfully shy with women ( although I did manage to lose my virginity prior to the Prom).

In college, I beefed up a bit, drank a LOT more and lost my shyness around women ( grew a set of nads)-- Now its what . . . 17 years after high school and I am a pretty laid-back dad, a few pounds overweight but still playing sports. I have two degrees and work as a lawyer. The biggest differences are that I have more confidence and I am better with people.

	26-05-2003 02:50									#51
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I care a lot less.

	26-05-2003 03:12									#52
	Inflate your Upload Space

quote: Originally posted by panag hi , gosh , if it was only possible to turn the clock back , ..... have a nice day

I wouldn't turn the clock back. I hated high school.

	26-05-2003 03:26									#53
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

quote: Originally posted by Mr. President I wouldn't turn the clock back. I hated high school.

hi ,

thats one of the reason i want it turned back , .....

have a nice day

	26-05-2003 03:52									#54
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Eli, same with me. 3 or 4 is still something and a grand annoyance.
Oh, my military profile went down from 72 to 64 since school ended. Just after my visit to the Army psychiatrist today...

	26-05-2003 05:22									#55
	Increase the size of your Attachments

I've probably changed very little in truth, but my environment has forced different responses.

I am more conservative, have less time for people, cannot handle spare time, demand far more discipline from myself, hate to see people smoking when I used to just enjoy the smell. I also tread more timidly in the world.

I think it mostly comes down to having a very different family role than I had back then and to handling a demanding, but charismatic wife.

	26-05-2003 07:08									#56
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

quote: Originally posted by monolith94 About two inches horizontally. But that's comin' off this summer!

Penis reduction surgery? You da man!

	26-05-2003 07:45									#57
	Remove this text

I was really a mess in high school, so I guess I haven't changed that much!

Seriously, like papa Troll I had a lot of work to do in order to make myself someone I (or anyone who wasn't seriously fvcked up) could live with. I knew some of that in high school, but it was the freedom from my crappy home environment which really allowed me to seek out people who could help me make those changes. No one in my high school years really knew me because I didn't really know myself. After about 5 years I had a much better idea of who I was, and perhaps more importantly who I wasn't.

In high school I never had a date. I was a non-entity amongst the girls in my school for the most part. I had no self-esteem, and only once got up the nerve to ask one of my classmates out. She said no, and I don't blame her. I was so nervous. The secret was that I had a lot more sex than most of my classmates, and a lot earlier. I would always manage to get laid by one or two girls over the summer, and in my senior year I was living with my girlfriend who was 4 years older than me. It took many years for me to put these two parts of myself together into an integrated personality. Today I am in a relationship which has lasted for 6 years and shows no sign of flagging, which is a record for me. I've shed a ton of baggage about relationships, and it's all been for the better.

Socially again I was like two different people. Amongst my classmates I was pretty quiet, but with older people I tended to come out of my shell and open up quite a bit. I didn't have the self-confidence necessary to really be a mentor or leader, but within a few years I was both, in the Army and as a youth counselor. These experiences were great for me, as they allowed me to measure my own progress in a very visible way that no amount of self-loathing could blind me to.

It's funny to hear people remember their youth with longing, as if they would have been happy to lock in their lives at some moment in their youth. Not so for me. Mine was hell, and college was in large part a struggle to make my way out of a pit 18 years in the making. Thus I remember bittersweet triumphs, the sort that don't make for good stories necessarily, but which with an understanding of myself show an inexorable rise to the sort of normalcy that at least makes life worthwhile. It was touch and go for a long time. Now, I'm actually happy sometimes, perhaps because I spend so much less energy beating myself up for stuff that isn't my fault, or of no consequence to a rational perspective.

	26-05-2003 09:55									#58
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

I weight a good 20 pound more, have slightly less hair, a bit more wisdom, far more experience, a decent amount more money, and much more self esteem.