Me and my SO are undergrads. I recently found out my SO started talked to me about a few months ago (during summer) he met up with his friend from when they were in high school together. They started reminiscing about their high school lives and at some point of the conversation my SO said how much high school sucked for him. To his impression, his friend had a good time when he was in high school and asked along the lines of "Aw come on, didn't you at least have a some nice memories with your friends or your favorite teachers?". He said 'no' to him. He did hung out with friends and stuff but he can't think of any fond memories at all and they both started to have a bit of tension so they stopped talking about that subject. Ever since then, he was really bothered by it till he couldn't bottled it up anymore and talked to me about it. Whenever high school is brought up with his friends it seems to him that they have good memories to talk about except for him. I think he became really bothered by it as if, if it's really wrong or bad to have not-so-very fond memories of high school.   I really want to lessen his burden about those thoughts by saying "it's ok to feel that way, everyone experience it differently. Many people are even glad to manage to have graduated from high school". I asked him if he wants to talk about it more and he said "yeah, maybe another time." I would like to know what more can I say or do to comfort him.   P.s. we didn't go to the same high school together and we both come from different countries. ... View more