When we are in high school, we pretty much run on emotion. Every little event, excitement, hurt, break-up, harsh word, feeling of being on top of the world or left out of the crowd is magnified and burned into our tiny little brains. So, getting together 20 years later with the people that we shared this formative time with is a little bit surreal. How can just being in close proximity with these people bring back so many memories and emotions? All of the sudden, you look at that time differently than you did at the 10 year when you were still hanging with your clique and trying to figure out why this or that friend hasn't married yet. You look at your classmates as human beings with their own full lives and families with little replicas of themselves. All of the sudden you feel regrets for things you forgot you had said or done 20 years ago until you see the humanity in their aging faces. Your stage in life is also magnified when you see that many of your friends have kids in high school or they have gone fully grey or bald. We are almost 40. It is a fact. 2 years and 2 weeks from now I will have my 40th birthday. I remember when 30 was old. I don't feel old...except for every morning when I get out of bed. I still have a young mind and that girl who graduated 20 years ago is still in there. Boy has she changed, but aspects of her remain the same.
I am thankful for the friendships that we are purposeful about cultivating and nurturing and I look forward to rekindling some friendships that have fizzled since moving away all those years ago.
I am also looking forward to getting all of our kids together now that we are back in
Oklahoma and watching them interact.
Who will become instant friends? Remain close? Tell each other stories we have each passed down about high school and crack up at their old parents who thought they were so cool?
There were some friends missing. My bff Colbi couldn't come.
We'd have had so much fun. I am forcing her to come to our 25th!
Obviously, I need to go out there and order these, and I will, but my impatience says go ahead and post with the "proof" right across the middle and replace later.
Good times...good times.
