Is it normal to feel satisfaction because of my less successful hs peers?

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I finished high school 25 years ago and in high school I was considered a geek and a loner. I made bad grades and everyone believed that I would never amount to anything. After high school I joined the Navy and saved up for college. Once my contract ended I went to college and became an accountant.

A few months ago my father died and so I came back into town so that my Mom and I could straighten out the financial situation...

During my first week, I went to a grocery store to pick up some frozen dinners and the lady at the register looked very old, wrinkled and sagging and when I got closer to her I recognized her as the girl that spread that nasty rumor about my being gay during my Junior year! She hardly recognized me. I found out from some friends that she lost her scholarship as she partied more than she studied and she lived off her parents until her Dad declared bankruptcy.

Then I got into the car to head home and on my way home I saw a man shaking one of those "$5 Pizza" signs in front of Little Caesers. He was the guy that told the girl that wanted to ask me out that I got herpes from messing around with my cousin! And this once buff and big Adonis was now a fat couch potato!

Those two weeks I saw many of the peers that made my life a living hell in high school! They were everywhere from behind the counter at McDonalds to serving my Mom and I dinner at Chiles and they all looked horrible with equally horrible stories to match, most of them involving their own arrogance.

I feel bad for feeling this satisfaction and I feel worse for feeling this condescending, I have never had these thoughts before and I am usually very sympathetic to the circumstances of those that were not able to make the kind of lives for themselves that I did but I can't help it! Is it normal?

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  • Mando
    11 years ago

    That's the reason for the saying that success is the best revenge. It is true. But whether tormentors were peers or family the reasons for effort and success is despite them, not to spite them. So enjoy feeling pleased with yourself, but just a little. The meanies just didn't matter - take care not to take too much satisfaction from their misfortunates.

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  • Chaosmuffin
    11 years ago

    This story sounds too good to be true to be honest haha

    It's like a perfect movie story but if it did happen I congratulate you because I wouldn't be able to hold back my comments if I remembered them.

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    Wow, in the 14 years since I left high school I've only run into one person and you say you've run into 4+ in two weeks!

    I call bullshit.

    If your such a great success, why, as a forty something yo man, are you making up stories on a website full of teenagers?

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      I gotta contest.

      My Mom comes from a really small town where most of the people that are born there, die there essentially and when we moved back we were seeing her high school mates (and an ex) all over the place. She would point them out in the year book and cackle about how skinny and pretty they were and how fat that they'd gotten.

      I believe that she graduated in '85. We moved back in '06.

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  • yesnomaybeso
    11 years ago

    Don't feel bad. They were bad to you! =P

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  • y2k2012now
    11 years ago

    I feel the same way. I remember in high school, this one girl used to call me stupid but I ended up getting a better class ranking than her when we graduated. I felt really happy and proud that I proved her wrong and that I was actually smarter than her.

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    Ha ya quite a few sonsabitches that were assholes in high school are dead now. Drugs overdoses. WHOS THE LOSER NOW?!?!?!?!?!?! Haha fuckface :)
    Ps.I didn't quite read your whole story :D

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