Attack of the clones
Just recently my group of close friends from high school started a discussion group on Yahoo. Forgive the tangent that is slightly askew from this line of thought, but I really dislike having to describe them as “friends from high school”, as we’ve been friends for much longer than that, and it transcends the definitive structure of K-5, 6-8, 9-12 school system. But back to my original non-thought, I really enjoy checking the message board to see what naively hilarious memories have been dredged up by forays into boredom while at work or school in our respective lives. We’re comically labeled as “Group o’ friends”, seemingly silly to me, as it conjures up a slightly redneck hick connotation (or I guess what they’d call here in ‘ole Mezzoura, ‘hoosier’), rather than what we were back then: higher than median tax bracket kids from demographically analogous suburbs. While I’ve kept updated on most of the major events in everyone’s lives; moving to different cities, starting school, engagements, etc., I felt that our lives were moving in parallel forward motion. That’s not necessarily true, I realize now. For the most part, we knew each other as the people we were in high school, which is (hopefully) not the primary indicator for the conscious individuals we are now and will be in the future. Back then, emerging identities clashed greatly with the social norm that called for us to fit into the homogenized populace at that particular school at that particular time. I believe wholeheartedly that that war was fairly won, with homogeneity sorely thwarted by the strong defender of self-identity. Still, it’s amusing to muse in recollection of the good times we spent together, when we were more idealistic and carefree, but I’m also looking forward to the years of events and shared memories ahead of us.
posted by Sheila @ 11/10/2004 08:00:00 AM
1 Comments:
I love you Sheila!!! :)
Here's to all the memories we all have yet to make together, and all the avenues we all have yet to explore!
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