people from my *middle school* (grades 5-8) are so weird

people from my middle school were always weird actually. now, as a graduate of that school, when i pass them on the street they either stare weirdly, or pretend they don’t see you, and almost no one says hi. i get that they didn’t like me because i had good grades unlike them, but whether you say hi to someone depends more on respect and upbringing than on "like/don’t like"
the only people from that school, who i’m not in contact with but who said hi, are a friend i used to hang out with as kids, who i recently passed on the street, and a girl, a typical extrovert, who used to sit with me in english class to copy my homework (which was probably the only reason she liked me)

i know my bestie from middle school, i’m really glad our contact survived and our relationship is strong. recently, on a trip with her, we were scrolling through profiles of people from that school and found out a lot of interesting things, like that a guy from her class who was weird and annoying has a girlfriend, and a girl who seemed totally straight is actually a lesbian. i remember on a 5-day school trip i lent her a t-shirt because she asked, she wore it every day and it ended up with a marker stain that doesn’t wash out. kind of a funny souvenir

there were also people i was closer to. sometimes i wonder how they’re doing

there was one girl i was super close with, but over time her mental health got a lot worse. i remember toward the end of our friendship, before she ended it, she was only hanging out with other mentally ill people from the internet, and at meetups she’d just sit on her phone. i heard she’s doing even worse now. even though she used to take her anger out on me and i myself spiraled and shut down for a while because of all that, i still quietly hope she wins that whole internal battle

another person (who was non-binary) was super quiet and shy, but when we welcomed them into our group in 8th grade and they opened up, they turned out to be funny and really cool. i miss them, recently my bff and i tried to message them but it didn’t work out. even though i know they were probably even more chronically online and lived only on discord, i hope they met cool people in high school and opened up a bit more to the real world

there was also a girl i wasn’t close with, but we liked to talk sometimes about anything and everything. she was super chill, also talked about how annoying everyone in that school was. judging from her insta stories, i know she has a boyfriend and that things are going well for her, and i’m happy about that. it would be nice to randomly meet her somewhere one day and maybe talk