Okay. But when you “shoot the shit” do you talk about your current life or do you spend the entire conversation talking about “that time in high school”. It’s one thing to briefly bring up a memory, it’s another thing to constantly obsess over it as if it was last week.
Yes, yes it is! My ex was like that: all of his golden-glow reminiscing was about the stuff he and his friends got up to in high school. He had been out of school for 6 years when we met, and throughout our 9 year relationship they still remained his top memories.
I've forgotten 90% of my HS teachers and peers and I rarely think about any of it.
Yeah. As an adult, the moment I notice someone constantly talking about “how great their past was”, I chalk it up to that being the bulk of their personality, and I’m done. I’ve been out of school for a long time, and I still remember teachers and classmate names but that’s because my memory just holds everything, but I have much more interesting stories from last month or even University than from my school years