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Is it ok to skip your debs?

vithit · 2018-04-10 22:16:35

I go to a tiny, rural school and suffered from bad social anxiety until late TY/5th year. I was picked on a lot & branded as a weirdo. Nowadays, I have people I talk to, but I would never meet up with them and maybe drink with them at large parties. I don't have any friends at school. I really don't see any point in going,…

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#32 08-05-2018 10:55PM

Bowlardo

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It’s a load of bollocks. I regret going to mine to be honest.

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#33 09-05-2018 05:13AM

B.A._Baracus

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Missing your debs does not mean a thing. But when you are young you can't realise that. Same goes for college graduation party. Same goes for a Christmas Party in a job.

In the immortal words of Randy Savage on the Arsenio Hall Show: "It's like a grain of sand in the Sahara Desert... It don't matter" - Your life is the desert. The debs is just a random Thursday. People who do go forget about it two days later.

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#34 09-05-2018 12:13PM

B0jangles

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Yeah, don't worry about it - I went to mine and it was... ok I suppose - crap food, mediocre DJ, no major drama. Bit of a letdown after all the build-up.

I'd say the majority of the really memorable ones are ones that go horribly wrong, and even they are more fun to tell stories about afterwards than to actually live through.

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