I can't/won't/don't dance, so that also makes dances much less worth going to. And I absolutely abhor the music they play at those things. My school was pretty shitty, and my friends are essentially the outcasts.
But regardless of all that, every other school function I've gone to except the CD releases sucked ass. (we had a small recording studio, so we recorded CDs of the singers/bands from the school, it was pretty badass)
I'm not trying to be pessimistic, and to be honest, I don't think I am. But the thing is that I've never once had actual fun at something like prom, my grade 8 graduation, or any of that sort of thing. I've had so much more fun just hanging out with friends, partying occasionally, and all that shit now than I ever had at some school event.
I do get out, and enjoy myself. But I have much more fun just hanging out, or partying, than I do at any of those "mandatory" events.
My highschool memories are still good. I remember hanging out with friends, smoking weed before classes. I remember playing euchre at lunch time, and whenever there were enough people on the same spare as me. I remember skipping class and going swimming at the piers when it was warm enough. I remember all sorts of random shit, from people bugging teachers, to teachers breaking up fights, to all the time I spent hanging out with a couple people in the studio all day during my co-op. I'd like to think that I had a pretty cool highschool experience. without needing something like prom. I've never regretted not going.
Maybe I have a habit of being pessimistic about random crap like prom, but it certainly doesn't stop anyone around me from having fun (as proven by every time I have gone to an event and found myself not enjoying it like I should be). It's not like I chose before hand "Oh, I don't want to have fun tonight". When I do find myself not enjoying something, I feel even worse, knowing that by all rights I should be enjoying it just as much as the next person, and that I have no reason to not enjoy it. So most of the time, I try to avoid events if I think I'm likely to end up feeling that way. It sucks coming home from something knowing that it was essentially a gigantic waste of time, and now you feel worse than you should ever feel after that event.
