It was a different life back then, a different you, a different them.
Is it that you want to say hi to them specifically, or more a lamenting that your school years could have been different?
They are now little more than strangers, would you have much in common?
You should say hi, everyone likes to hear about what became of old faces. It’s interesting, not everyone becomes what you might have expected. The quiet shy ones seem to have become the most successful, in terms of careers, marriage and kids, home and business ownerships…
As to who has had the success of happiness, that’s a different matter.
Are you happy with your life now?
I remember my peers (year group) from that time, sometimes I see what they’re up to in social media… to me, it seems like they are stuck in a safety bubble time warp of their teen years. They dress similarly, listen to similar music, still drink at the same old pubs, still playing musical chairs in relationships with one another. It’s all a sort of incestuous echo chamber.
Frankly, I feel I’ve moved on and prefer other things and prefer being elsewhere. I’m not into pubs, drugs, sports fanship, and casual sex.
I used to feel left out, as you did.
As an adult, I see it was my own insecurities that caused me to leave my own self out. My home life fed into that, I was neglected in many ways. I didn’t have all the latest outfits, tech, and pocket money to go out with them either.
Now I feel, even if everything had been sleigh at home, the so called popular ones would not have been the ones I’d picked as friends in hindsight now… they were doing a lot of underage drinking, smoking weed, and underage unprotected sex… there were some pregnancies.
It was character forming.
Do you think you could consider the good things that came out of that time and let them go?
Divest yourself of all the things that make you sad and get you down.