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just like that I forget about it and start thinking about some other random thing.
My Random Thing right now is High School.
Let me say first and foremost that I didn't really like High School all that much. I wasn't a jock or a head or a hick, but a combo of all of that with a heaping dose of NERD thrown in to make it interesting. Lucky me. As a matter of fact I High School was such a non issue that I have forgotten a whole lot of it. Even though I had my reunion ( 35 years) last year- I still can't remember a whole lot.
I remember the stuff that happened after school, or at home, but even that is sort of hazy. ( Ahh you Freudians are thinking that I forget because I am subverting something bad. You may be right. We will never truly know.)
But one of my unnamed girlfriends remembers a LOT about high school! Who was in her class, what they did, where they sat, who she had a crush on, who she ate lunch with. She is still hanging onto a lot of the baggage that she acquired in High School. To the point that now, 35 years later, she has reconnected with another one of our classmates and they are discussing the days past in great detail, to no one's benefit ( except my intrigued mind)!
And then there is my current favorite show GLEE.
I love that show- and I don't really know why. I like the singing and dancing, but I am facinated with the kids in the show too. And tonight I find myself asking ( as if they are really high school kids) " Are they going to be carrying around all this heartbreak and longing all of their lives too?
AND THEN I started wondering if everyone did- except me?
Do you?
Do you carry around the baggage that was put on you by your high school failures, and loves and teachers and expectations?
Do we all do it?
Do we get past it?
And what is it about those years in High School that make us remember them ( mostly) and think they were so great?
I know I am so much better than I was then.
Smarter.
Braver.
Happier.
How about you?
