[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

And generally being better in certain social situations in general.

Seconded. I hate how crippling my anxiety gets the majority of the time. I wish I was just one of those people who could walk into a situation like a room full of people (both familiar or strange) and just not care but I can't seem to shake it.

I'd also really make an effort in keeping in touch with my high school friends, I feel like this is where things started to go wrong for me social life-wise. Once we left school and all went our own way, none of us really every saw each other again apart from a handful of times early on, lots moved away to uni and never returned, some even went abroad for years etc, and now when we ever see each other it's unavoidably awkward for want of a better word, which is very strange considering how you're with these people day in/day out for like five years, through probably the most important years of your life and then just... nothing. You never really get that same bond like you did with your school mates later in life with other people I've found, it's sort of unique. Hard to adjust but, c'est la vie - it's pretty common.

Also, trust my gut when I had a feeling the hottest girl in my year was hitting on me in Year 11 - I found out about 7 years later that my suspicions were true... She told me drunk in the pub one night (engaged and one child later may I add!) that she "fancied the pants off me" but we were both too immature to do anything about it plus we were in different "groups" friends-wise. Oh what could have been...