The 'good' old days.

I was out to lunch at Pizza di Roma the other day with a friend from high school who was home for the weekend. We were walking down State Street (where we use to hang out 'back in the day') talking about who has gotten knocked up since graduation when we saw a former classmate of ours. We all stopped and hugged each other and caught up on what's been going on, and then it dawned on me, she was a bitch in high school. She never talked to us, we even had class together one year.

You see, I use to a be a bit nerdy. I broke out of that nerdiness a couple times a year, for our DECA (highschool marketing) competitions. I would show up at school in business clothes, heels, hair up with makeup on, and everyone would be in total shock that I could indeed look girly. My marketing teacher would always tell the teachers from other school that I was his student who could 'sell a freezer to an eskimo, overhaul your engine, build you a barn, and still wear heels and makeup.'

I have seen a few people since graduation that I never talked to prior to it. It seems as though when you are in highschool you fall into a certain click, a nich if you will, and when you change yourself to not conform to that nich, like when I dress business professional, people seem worried and are fearfull of that change. When you graduate that nich you belonged to, with all its strict social laws, seems to desolve, and it is suddenly okay to do whatever you want. Maybe that is why its now deemed 'okay' to talk to people who were considered lame in highschool.

Well, that and the fact that most of the 'popular' kids have (a) failed at life or (b) gotten knocked up (only applies to girls) and us nerdy kids who spent our saturday night at the bowling ally calculation the force the ball exercted upon the pins, are the ones who are in control. In the end though, we'll all end up in the same place.

The upcoming 5 year class reunion.