Which School FRIEND Took An UNEXPECTED Path?
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I was at school with a kid who was a bit of a trouble maker, arguing with teachers and pupils alike. After school finishes he dropped out of sight, years later, we had a school reunion, John couldn't make it, he was now a high ranking priest in the Catholic church, and was attending a conference at the Vatican.
Oh dear ... I nixed out the Catholic church after a priest hit on me and gave me a whole story about how it was okay for him...
Good for him, I know a couple of priests who came from unlikely backgrounds. Some had fiancés, engineering degrees etc before they found their calling.
God bless that man
He definitely killed someone 😂
Our Lord Jesus had a plan for him. I’m glad he followed what was in his heart.
The small quiet nerdy kid who was relentlessly bullied at my school is now a 6ft blackbelt gym rat life coach.
Sick
lol. not at all surprising. am i the onlynone who sees that as still very sad as it seems the bullies still run his life?
would he have picked a more stereotypical “im a badass” lifestyle had he not been bullied?
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@@threestans9096depends on how he processes it as motivation. Nothing wrong with how he is now described.
If he saw himself as weak and wanted that to change, that’s all good.
If he sees it as a way to “show his bullies up” that’s where the bullies live rent free in his head.
In story 1 she was probably going through some huge shit or it was early manifestation of psychological disorders that she probably got into control with medication
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A kid in school used to get bullied cus he always had a hood on and would never take it off, kids used to take the mick out of him for it.
We all later found out his dad was a nut job and would beat him every week end, how it went on for so long I dont know but when the bullies found out his life was a living hell they became friendly to him, didnt get bullied again and they stuck up for him.
His dad was locked up a year (ish) later.
Last I saw of him he became an inspirational speaker.
i question the validity of this as EVERY school i’ve been or had friends at.. would not allow hoods or headwear unless cancer or etc.
Most of the "gangstas" of my high school grad year got their wish, and have been in prison at least once.
I wasn’t friends with him but this dude from high school we rode the same bus and had a couple classes together this dude is in prison now for killing 5 people originally was going to be a life sentence but he pleaded guilty and got 60 years which might as well be a life sentence dude will be in his 80s when he gets out
LMAO they smooth hit us with the Lion King plot 😂
That was genius
The first thing that came to mind is there would be some people who were jerks and seemed to have no future outside of school, but show up as a different successful, really nice person.
The way he just started the next story right after the Lion King one. I'm gonna need some moment, sir
This is my story, as my life took an unexpected turn. This happened during high school, in my junior year. In December of 06, I was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. This tumor, called a craniopharyngioma, grew in my hypothalamus and was crushing my optic nerves. My vision got really bad and I had a MRI that found the tumor. I ended up needing brain surgery. My surgery was January 4th, 2007, it was a six and a half hour long operation done endoscopically through my nose and sphenoid sinus. After the surgery I noticed an amazing improvement in my sight. I messed a little school, though I was ready to move on with my life. Well, a little over a month later, I noticed my sight was again diminishing. Another MRI showed a mass as big, if not bigger than the tumor. I had another surgery on March 8th. It turns out the culprit that was crushing my optic nerves was a cyst. This cyst, was small at first, but the first surgery caused it to swell up. It was too close to my vital structures to safely tie off, which is why it was left alone. My neurosurgeon cut and drained it, but it would inevitably fill up with fluid again. The only thing that would work is radiation.. I had my radiation from April 15th to May 22nd. My cyst was still crushing my optic nerves, and my sight continued to degrade. My neurosurgeon knew that the radiation needed time to kill the cyst, so on June 29 I had my third brain surgery. This was an attempt to place a drain inside the cyst, to keep it under control while the radiation slowly killed it. Unfortunately, the operation failed. I ended up having the same procedure on July 20th. That one also failed. By this time I was really close to total blindness, and we were running out of time. My neurosurgeon planned one final surgery. This one would be the most invasive operation that I had. On August 3rd, I had a craniotomy. My head was cut from in front of my mid ear to my forehead. The incision was in the shape of a backwards capital C. A fist size chunk was cut out of my skull, and my brain was lifted a few millimeters. My neurosurgeon maneuvered the drain into place, but it would not pierce through the cyst’s membrane. Apparently my cyst had a stronger than usual membrane. Lucky me… Anyways, he was able to successfully insert the drain. I My skull was put back together, and I had 30 staples in my head. I had to visit my neurosurgeon every few weeks to get the cyst drained, via a port under my scalp. That always caused me terrible headaches, due to the changing pressure in my head. The draining continued until mid December. That draining only produced a small amount of black fluid. I had another MRI, and we got the news. The cyst was dead. I’m still dealing with the damage to my optic nerves. I’ve lost around 75% of my sight. The damage is permanent, and so is my loss of vision.
amazing
I hope things are stable. Any hope for improvement?
@@robertgraybeard3750 Things are stable with me, for the most part. There isn’t anything my doctors can do about my blindness.
@@BobbySliko so you are alive and can still get things done.
Wishing you all the success and happiness of the world. Keep fighting 💪
Dealing with bulging retinas causing massive bleeding inside my eyes. I've lost about 25% of my vision. Doctors have no clue why.
Your story shows me it can always be worse. Gonna go hug my wife and son.
I hope you are as well as humanly possible, and I'll pray for you.
One kid I grew up with was dirty, a bully, and generally a POS.
Once he got out of the house he was raised in he went to the military, got involved with computers, became an expert, retired, and now works on contract making a minimum of 6 figures a year if he's not feeling like working much. He's also dropped all the bully stuff and apologizes to anyone he bullied in the past. We were kids. I don't care. Glad he's doing well. Last I heard he was going to Hawaii to help with the computers in their niches program
Story 1 I suspect she had some problems at home causing her actions.
Guy I went to high school & college with wasn't a great student. In HS he got Bs & Cs, and flunked out of college twice before moving out of state for 4 years for a job. He now has an Associate's degree in Culinary Arts, a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice with a double major of Forensic Science & Criminal Psychology. He now works as a Intelligence Analyst.
I'll keep this short: the valedictorian is doing 50 years in prison for beating his grandparents to death with a splitting maul (log cutting axe).
Only 50 years..... for two first-degree murders.......
Makes total sense..
What was even the motivation to do it?
@@Agent_Aye11 He's a paranoid schizophrenic, he was claiming his grandma's dolls told him to do it. His lawyer was good so the plea deal was 50 years. Personally, I don't want that guy to walk the streets ever again, and I'll be at every parole meeting to make sure of that.
@@Agent_Aye11honestly you'd be surprised how often justice isn't served properly. My biological father has committed multiple felonies and despite reporting him to DCF they didn't even bother to investigate him. I was starving and had untreated epilepsy for 4 years and was sleeping in a house that smelled like a landfill, but as the DCF put it I was "safe now" with my grandparents at the time, so...bygones I guess. Nasty f*cker.
My childhood best friend is in prison in Florida for capital murder. You would’ve never expected him to go out like that.
College is a whole different vibe than school. Either the first story girl realized she wouldn’t be able to act out in the new environment (because consequences are even steeper) or they treated her like an adult, making her want to be one
Story one. She was probably being hurt and acted out at school
I definitely agree with the whole "blossomed late but worth the wait" idea.
Lene would always go on and on about how she wanted to be a dentist. She even wrote a whole show and tell essay about. A decade later I ran into Lene's old best friend Linda who informed me Lene had become a priest instead. That was unexpected however we did used to joke with how 99% of the world's population don't actually follow the christian script with turning the other cheek, no s*x before marriage, etc, but that Lene fell under the 1% that did. Still unexpected though. This is Denmark where most people don't give a flying f*ck about religion, and Lene never mentioned a word about being one either. It was always that dentist talk.
I went to high school with a quiet guy. He sat at my lunch table. Sweetest guy ever. Grew up to be a very popular adult film star. Also at my lunch table was a female power lifter. I'm from po dunk no where.
I guess he wanted to do something about the male star crisis in Japan 😅
The double inspiration story is awesome!
The one guy I was friends with in high school, he was pretty popular, part of the football team, had a great sense of humor, and was marrying his “true love” after graduating high school.
Didn’t hear anything from him again until joining Facebook. Found out in 2004 after his lone tour of duty in Iraq, he developed severe depression and suicidal tendencies, which eventually led to him committing suicide via hanging. Thankfully his widow is remarried with 2 kids and is a realtor.
Another person, she was intelligent, independent, and someone that I relied on to help me make wiser decisions for the environment. I thought she was going to be a teacher or an environment lawyer.
Not too long after graduating college, she got married and had 2 boys. However, twice she got diagnosed with lymphoma and after surviving her first bout, died from it the second time. No clue what happened to her husband and boys due to them almost immediately cutting off contact from everyone.
I loved hearing about the good cop story!!
My head popped up at the mention of the author of the Howl's Moving Castle series. Anyone else?
My friend’s little sister was a year younger than us. We saw her going far and doing great things in criminal justice. I found out a couple of months ago that she had a baby and lives with her boyfriend in his mom’s basement. She is basically working herself to the bone providing for all of them because the boyfriend just smokes all day with no job. She would have help from her family but she’s in another state but they help when they can
That's sad to hear
I had a friend I knew since I was 11
He was funny, smart, and everyone really liked him
Late in high school, he started dating this girl who he really loved. He withdrew from his friends group most of the time and started drinking all the time.
When he got to college, that girlfriend from high school cheated on him and he caught her
He’s never really been the same since
I lived with him afterwards in college and he just wasn’t the same guy
He got drunk a lot more
Up and down emotionally
But this wasn’t where it ended sadly…
I got a great career opportunity in Colorado and he wanted to come with me because he wanted a change in life. When he got there. He had a massive panic attack and moved back in with his parents.
Sadly, he never recovered. This was 9 years ago, last I knew his parents kicked him out and he’s homeless, using meth on the streets
All of his friends, cousins, family members tried to help him
Sometimes there’s nothing you can do.
Another thing to consider is how much life could’ve been different for him if she had simply broken up with him instead of screwing him over and destroying his mental health
That goes first anyone
If you want to be with someone else, just be honest with people
You could hurt a really nice person really badly
Sweet, pretty, nice girl from art class became a war criminal.
Context please?!
@Secret_Agent_A met her again at the 10-year reunion. Asked her what she'd been doing and she proudly announced she had designed laser sighting and ranging for tanks. She added that ANYONE WHO EVEN LOOKED AT THE TANK WHILE IT WAS RANGING THEM WOULD BE BLINDED. PERMANENTLY. RETINAE LIKE FRIED EGGS.
I was quietly horrified, pretty sure this was a violation of the Geneva Convention, because it crippled non combatants, wildlife, livestock, shepherds tending their flock.
She told me to keep quiet about it because it wasn't supposed to be publicly known, and they needed to keep the mass blindings a secret to get it approved and installed.
On every fucking American tank.
I checked later, and found that weapons that indiscriminately injure non-combatants, miles away, in large numbers qualify as a war crime, and she knew this, and that's why she said to keep it under my hat.
But I didn't know that at the time, so I just guilt-ripped her, saying,
"Wow, so you helped blind farmers, children, and livestock. Your mother must be so proud!"
Her face just went blank, like I'd said, "What's 12,095.3 ÷ 2.57 %?"
I'd liked her up until that moment. Then I saw she had no conscience. Asking her to have one was like asking a bat about color theory.
No equipment for that operation.
But I understood the guys who built the atomic bomb a little better. It's a puzzle, and they love solving big, weird puzzles.
What the government does with her completed puzzle is not her problem.
@@Agent_Aye11She designed a laser ranging system for tanks that ALSO blinds anybody who looks at it.
@@LordMondegrene Oh... that's, uh, interesting.
Thanks for the context!
@@Agent_Aye11 I'd originally posted a much longer reply, but somebody censored it.
I went to high school with this kid who was the class clown, happy go lucky and a massive stoner (I smoked up with him once in the woods behind the school while we were at summer school) and a while after we graduated he joined the Marines. Needless to say I was shocked when I heard about it
The person that comes to mind for me is a friend of mine. I think she would’ve had a bright future with writing. She was smart and sweet not a hateful bone in her body unless you really pushed her. What changed her was that she decided to go down the woke path and it really made her hateful to friends that cared about her. She wanted anyone who didn’t agree with her beliefs to unfriend her and called them horrible for not agreeing with her. Which is weird for her because she’s truly been someone who didn’t follow the crowd and she was very logical now she’s just a copy and paste girl.
I had a classmate that was popular. Even though i wasnt we clicked freshmen year. She was on the dance team and dated a bad boy at the school. I left the school our sophomore year. We've been fb friends forever. Saw that her and the guy had a kid together, she beat cancer and had been doing hair. Literally yesterday my childhood bestfriend text me saying she unalived herself. Took me for a huge loop. Her last post on fb said "Mental Health is real" smh. As someone whose been very vocal about my own mental health struggles that really tore me up. I sympathize with her family. Her daughter. But i sympathize with her so much more. She's just gone and whatever chance anybody may have had to listen to her is just gone. No its not anybodys responsibility. But so many people are reminiscing about her. But dang. The post literally had 1 comment until it was announced she was gone. She cried out. Smh. She was a beautiful talented mother. And i hope wherever she is, she's at peace. R.I.P. Nefi!!
I went to junior high school with a kid who was every parent's dream come true: smart, charming, witty, polite, funny. He was the kid I'd point to if you asked me to name someone I knew would be very successful. During law school, he flew from Oregon to Beaumont, TX to help victims of Hurricane Rita submit paperwork to FEMA so they can rebuilt and get on with their lives. He volunteered his time and money to do that. This doesn't surprise me at all; he was just that kind of person. He seemed like the perfect person to have his loving wife and his two adorable little girls.
What I didn't know is that he hit the sauce hard in college. He'd had a felony theft conviction on prosecutorial deferral pending 270 hours of community service (he completed that and got the charge legally dismissed), He then faced a controversial allegation of misconduct that led to him being indefinitely disbarred. He later racked up a DUI acquittal (on a technicality) and a DUI conviction. His wife divorced him and took a $17,000 up-front alimony payment, their two little girls, and $420/month for each girl for child support.
One afternoon, he was driving in his hometown. Police pulled him over for as-yet-unconfirmed reasons. He shot himself. Died instantly. 36 years old.
Me actually. Had good grades, Family and friends thought I’d end up doing cybersecurity, even had a certificate from orcale but nah. I get high and make jazz/rnb music for a living 😂
Rebel out of idiocy?
@@the_expidition427 what’s idiotic about it?
The girl from story one was definitely going through something
I've been told I'm that person for a couple people. I did well at school in my younger years and have always been told that people think I'm smart. I fell off towards the end of high school pretty hard but didn't fail so most people didn't really notice, I went to university but one of the newer and less prestigious universities in my city, which the few people I've seen since high school have found surprising. They all thought I would go to the most prestigious university in my city, they didn't even realise my grades were not nearly good enough to get in let alone that I didn't want to go there because that's where all the people I hated from high school wanted to go, many of whom did go. I did graduate from uni for all the good it did me, I've never worked in the field I studied in, I've actually spent most of my working career in retail, not even retail management, just a regular, underpaid, grunt. I'm currently unemployed after failing to pass probation at the last two jobs I've had. I guess people never really saw the signs of how much of a screw up I actually am, most people I've spoken to expected me to be successful.
not a friend, just a classmate in a small school. He wasn't too bright, a bit slow to catch up in convo. Nothing that would put him in an IEP but he might have been close to needing one.
He is a pediatrician now. IDK if it was an act, or just he understood bio/chem really well
Dude I went to school with was an iconoclast, counter-culture personified. He married a single mother with three kids in her thirties right out of highschool. Dude speed-ran adulthood, went totally straight, just skipped youth entirely and went right for the Dad life.
What’s that game in the background?
Disney Speedstorm.
Im probably a good example🤣 great grades in middle school dropped out in tenth grade for half a year cane back to alt school graduated. I was in an abusive relationship for 2 years after graduating and then became a prek teacher and left the relationship. 2 years later im attending college to become a surgical tech and assist in surgery (my dream since i was in middle school).
I had a friend who I met before we were classmates. We became classmates in junior high school and we remained buddies after high school. Little did I know that after I lost contact with him for almost a year, I heard my friend was arrested for possession and distribution of “Cheese Pizza”.
If you’re still innocent and don’t know what “Cheese Pizza” is, first of all, great job staying innocent this long. Second of all, “Cheese Pizza” is a family friendly term for…
Umm…y’know those photos you can find on the internet when you wanna be intimate with yourself? Yeah “Cheese Pizza” implies those photos involve and star children.
I can’t believe I didn’t see the warnings sooner. This person is no longer my friend. I refuse to associate with someone that disgusting. I’d rather “Forever Box” myself.
When deputy U.S. marshalls crash through the ceiling
Lost me at cop with a charge
I wonder if story 7 was just The Lion King?
And by the way, there’s an English word for Schadenfreude; the word is “epicaricacy”
See I knew bullies go and work in the government. ##stopbullying
Wait what happened in the end of Story 7?
yoo does rufus rugs still exist?
Anyone else getting Aubrey vibes from the first one
they troll you with stories from movies
19:20 uhhh black widow???
They really put the Lion King plot in there?
So no one is gonna talk about how that one story was just lion king?
13:03 so his uncle killed his dad?
A guy i went to school with was literally THE school bully. Unbelievably violent and feared. He would show people the blood stains on his rings.
Years later he became a Jehovah’s Witness, is the most calm, peaceful, friendly person now. Only God could change someone that much ❤
You might want to reexamine that change, because when it comes to religious scandals, particularly when it comes to violence, JWs are some of the biggest offenders. For all you or any non-JW know, they simply taught him how to hide his violence from the public.
No, the threat of eternal fire did that. Unrealistic as that is.
You might want to reexamine how he changed. I'm not sure if you know this, but JWs are one of those groups known publicly for scandals, particularly ones involving violence between members, especially if they are relatives.
I am not saying that this is the case, but for all we could know, the JWs taught him how to hide his old behavior from the public. Again, I am not saying that this is indeed what happened with him, just that you might want to reexamine if he really did change.
Bs. Religion and God bring only pain.
@BenCDBrown the fake ones yeah. The true religion teaches ppl how to live life properly and be kind, loving and happy. You must've just not met any true Christians before. Get to the nearest kingdom hall 🧡
My friend from highschool, who was (emphasis on "was") a MAGA Republican, came out as a trans woman in late 2021, about a month after I did. (Neither of us were aware of the other being trans until November that year.)
Also, didn't expect her to become my girlfriend.
Hope that doesnt turn self destructive
It’s so funny what these posters and society sees as “successful” is affluent - degree / corporate job
But are they HAPPIER than the girl living by the creek - have your own human experience.
Can't say that there are good cops. At least, not for long. Eventually it's something -- either they turn bad, or they turn a blind eye to the bad cops (which is just as bad) or they DO try to do something about it and are forced out. There's many instances of that -- the good cops get harassed by the other cops/their superiors until they quit, or intentionally set up to get injured/killed (call for a violent incident, the good cop gets sent out and back up never arrives, good cop gets taken out by the criminals). ACAB.
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