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I don't want to go to prom, but...
I'm a senior in high school and have not been asked to prom, nor do I expect to be. I don't really want to go anyway-I see no point in spending a lot of money(dress, ticket, hair) for 3 unenjoyable hours. Especially since I just wrecked my car and I can't imagine asking my parents for money after that. I also don't want to ask anyone. However, my best friend, who is like a sister to me, really wants me to go. I don't want to let her down, but I really don't want to go. I don't know what to do.
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I am so glad Breezy told you what she did. Now I will share. I was one of those people who never went to prom because no one asked me, and I didn't expect to be as I wasn't the friendliest person towards most boys. I had boys who were kinda friends but not boyfriends. I felt strange going alone or with girlfriends who didn't have dates. Now today that is popular. Do I regret missing out on that rite of passage? You bet I do. You can't go back and undo something and choose another way. If it turns out you were right and you dont enjoy yourself at prom, at least you gave it a try. If you go and do enjoy it with your friend, you'll have a great memory to look back on. If you make excuses to not go, you'll be kicking yourself later like I did for quite a while. My daughters all borrowed dresses for prom. We didnt have the money to get them any. They didnt have corsages but one did pool monies together with her group of friends and hired a hairdresser acquaintence to come to the apartment and do up the hair of all five girls for a special rate. That besides tickets in was their only splurge. Her friends families were poor too. If we begin to let our financial status limit us from enjoying life, then we all have a pretty sucky life to look forward to.
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I did not want to go to my senior prom at all. There was no part of me that wanted to go. My boyfriend and I broke up a month before, nobody was going to ask me, I didn't want to ask anyone. Why would I go? Why would I spend all that money, get the dress, do the hair, the make-up, the pictures. All for what? To dance in a crowded room for 3 hours? No. Way.
My best friend wanted me to go. She said it was our senior year & to go and have fun. I told her I didn't want to go. She told me to please go and to think about it.
I thought about it. I looked at dresses. I looked up hairstyles. I still didn't want to go.
In the end, I decided to go & I had the best time. I was with my best friend & we had a blast.
Sitting here in my room 6 years later, I still thank her.
If you can't ask your parents for the money, I completely understand. It's a lot of money to dish out for 3 hours. As for the hair, do it yoursef! Curl it, keep it straight, do a sock bun! ([Link](Mouse over link to see full location)) google "simple hairstyles for prom" and have your best friend try it out!
As for a dress, try JC pennys, SEARS, KOHLS, Target.
You don't need a designer dress that costs 100+ dollars.
Basically, what I'm saying is. You should go. As much as you don't really want to, you know you want to. I was in your shoes. I didn't want to go, but I went and I had the best time. As for not being asked to go to prom? WHO CARES! your best friend asked you & sometimes a best friend is all you need.
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In all honesty, I think you should go.
1. You're a senior. It's your last year of high school, you should do everything there is to do- prom, spirit week, homecoming, senior prank, etc
2. You're going to miss high school someday.
3. You're talking yourself out of going by telling yourself it's going to be awful. Because you're going into it thinking it's going to be terrible, it probably will be and you won't enjoy yourself. Change your mentality towards it, and you'll have fun.
4. You wouldn't be going alone. You would be going with your best friend, and if that alone doesn't sound fun, then you've got a problem.
You should go. It's your last chance to have some stories from your last year of high school. Besides, I never went to mine and I still regret it 7 years later.
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