School tends to be a pretty closed ecosystem. For most people, each year there will be some new faces, but if you live in the same area continuously, you’ll probably have some of not most of the people from elementary school going to the same high school as you. In college some people may still be there, but the world gets bigger and will only keep getting bigger. People generally have much more on their plates and are more concerned with their lives than what other people are up to. So yeah- being as self conscious just doesn’t make sense when you’re very unlikely to ever see most of these people again, and if you do- even if one of you did something monumentally embarrassing, you probably won’t remeber the face with the event. Of course- that doesn’t mean act a fool. The world is full of strange coincidences and you never know if the guy you cut off in traffic is the guy giving your job interview. Also the internet remembers. Don’t be a jerk but don’t be too self conscious.
Idk though, some kids became so famous even the ones who came after they left heard of them. Like 2 years before I got into my 3rd uni a girl fell in the stairs wearing heels, making a very regular and long tac-tac-tac-tac-plaf sound and ended up on her knees at the teacher's feet. They were still talking about it 2years after that (the teacher remembered it quite well too) and a guy was recording the lecture, so I got to hear the sound. Another was such a weird kid and most of all a massive douche that others who never knew him felt like he was still part of the school, he was THAT emblematic.
And one day a guy came to me and said "hey you're the one who got shat on by a pigeon in front of the cathedral right?" and he was right, a year after the fact.
But it still doesn't matter, life is full of these incidents and everyone has mishaps, they make funny memories.
And one day a guy came to me and said "hey you're the one who got shat on by a pigeon in front of the cathedral right?" and he was right, a year after the fact.
But it still doesn't matter, life is full of these incidents and everyone has mishaps, they make funny memories.