Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. It’s Wednesday again, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you would like to participate in the challenge yourself, you can find the list of topics for 2026 here. If you are interested in what other people had to say on today’s topic, you can read their responses here.
Have You Ever Attended Your High School Reunion? Why?
My high school has never held a reunion, which is good because if it did, I certainly wouldn’t go. I was bullied so terribly at school that it has affected my whole life. It’s left me with lifelong mental health issues that I never could have predicted. I had plans when I was a kid. I was going to grow up, travel, and do all kinds of things. But all I’ve done really is attend one form of psychological treatment or another ever since I left.
So, no. I would never go back to that place and mix with the majority of those people. I’m still in contact with the friends I made there, occasionally, so I don’t need to attend a “party” to catch up.
I’m in a much more stable place in life now than I’ve ever been, so I wouldn’t want to undo any of the decades-long work I’ve done to get here.
The awful thing is that kids who bully don’t know that the way they treat others will have lasting effects.
They don’t know that people like me lie awake at night at almost 40 years old, replaying every nasty comment and every punch and kick over and over until I fall asleep. If they did, then perhaps they wouldn’t be so cruel.
Well… wasn’t that a cheery post?! Would any of you attend a high-school reunion?
As ever, thank you for taking some time to read my words. I do appreciate it.
Until next time,
George
© 2026 GLT
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
Between our two posts, I hope Lydia does something cheery. XD
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😂 I hope so!
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I am glad you are in a better place now 🌺
I don’t have good memories of high school either. I am not in touch with anyone from those years. I wish them well… from very faaaar faaaaar away…
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I know just what you mean 🤗
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I’m sorry you had that experience, George. It can really linger long into adulthood, eh?
I wish I could have had a cheerful response to this question. 🙂
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Can it ever. 🫠
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Yikes. Mine is snarky, but…In my home town I was bully-proof. Kids who had seen either my father or the elementary school principal (distant cousins, I didn’t think they looked alike) gave me no further trouble. There was a year when I went to a different school and was bullied unmercifully and traumatized…
How badly traumatized, exactly? I don’t know. Some people want to believe extroversion is normal, when it’s actually the result of incomplete neurological development. I liked books better than the company of most children my age before I went to school. I think I spent more time learning better communication skills, unlearning the awful communication habits I developed at school, than working through emotional traumas in my twenties.
Nevertheless. Schools *are* toxic environments for a lot of people.
At least you didn’t learn to detach from your pain by bullying others…I think?
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No I certainly wouldn’t inflict the feeling I felt back then on anyone. I was the same as you, regarding liking books better than the other kids and If there’s one positive that came out of my school experience it’s that I think it made me a more empathetic person. Some might say, too empathic. But I have a gut reaction of relatability to anyone experience any kind of pain.
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My heart goes out to you, George. Focusing on your healing is so much more important. My sincere prayer is that one day these experiences won’t have the control over us that they have had in the past. Sending virtual hugs.
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Thanks so much, Cheryl, I appreciate that! Sending hugs back!
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