We never really get over our high school years I think. We mature, we move on, we forget about who said what to who, we forget about the girl who sat behind us in English who we had a major crush on..what was her name again?
But I think alot of those feelings never leave
Even the people who I know now that claim they never go to reunions I think are acting out their HS part in that back then they had an attitude that they were sort of above the rest, foot ball games and that stuff were for the rest of them not me they would think
In many ways I am FAR from being the person I was then, and maybe that explains alot in that the man my wife married was in many ways the boy that graduated high school.
But now I am a man in a full sense, but this is not about that
To fully get a sense of all this you have to get a few facts:
My high school class was strange in that we had the normal mix of things, we had the jocks, the brains, the people who coated thru school. the people who were so driven it was not funny.
We had all of them
But funny thing is, they all got along
We had groups and not cliques
We all mixed well
And in a funny way I way I was not in any one group...I never played sports, but was friends w/ many of the jocks. I was intellegent and knew I had to work hard to get through school and become what I wanted to be, but I coasted on my brains and got "B"'s , not the "A"'s I could have, I knew the drama club, the "band nerds", I was one of the class clowns, yet I ran for and almost won Student Council President....the "stoners' were well hidden if we had any so who knows, I may have even known them
I go to the reunions and have fun
We all tell old stories and catch up on the new ones
but after it is over, with a very few small cases, I see this people again in 5 years and no sooner
So I was stunned when out of the blue I get a call at work, must have given that number to someone at a reunion, from a high school classmate saying that the guys from my class were all planning an overnite trip to Atalntic City in June and did I want in? and also if they get enough people to go to this, next year Vegas!
Huh? me?
I said sure, I am not a high stakes gambler but I get a sense that this is more guys getting together to drink, complain about the wives (boy do I have ammo in that area) and who knows what else...
I got the info and will be going to AC. He told me all the people that were going and it is all the guys I hung out with, but the "cooler"end of the scale if we were still in high school.
But no matter how much I try to say I am a mature adult, a man, beyond all that cool table stuff...I could not help but feel that I am in the group....and I am sure I will have a blast
Guess we never do outgrow high school
Karen??? Linda??? what was that girl's name,,,where is that yearbook?
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