From December, 06.\u00a0 I never put this up because I feared my old roomate.
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Look Back<\/p>\n
The thing that really confuses me, after all the other things that really confuse me, is high school nostalgia.\u00a0 I can understand it when you\u2019re a college freshman and shit really sucks, but when you\u2019re in your 30\u2019s?\u00a0 It\u2019s the cult of rose tinted glasses, I guess.<\/p>\n
My last friend from high school (who I currently share an apartment with) had a visitor last night.\u00a0 I pop in, the guy shakes my hand, and the introduction is:\u00a0 \u201cYou remember Thomas, right?\u201d\u00a0 Social custom demands that I say yes, though the truth was that I had no fucking clue, so Thomas says, \u201cI remember you from the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bus?\u00a0 The last bus I rode was between Carlisle to Brampton in the UK.\u00a0 So I\u2019m thinking, wow, pretty cool.\u00a0 But then I get a clarification, because I think I had a look on my face that telegraphed the thought: Huh?\u00a0 The clarification was that he was on the bus to high school, a senior when I was a freshman.<\/p>\n
Okay, let\u2019s review:<\/p>\n
First of all, I\u2019m supposed to remember someone that I knew for nine months of my life?<\/p>\n
Second, I\u2019m supposed to remember an outgoing senior that I wouldn\u2019t have had any association with?<\/p>\n
Third, fucking high school was 792 motherfucking years ago.<\/p>\n
Why would anyone in their right mind be nostalgic for high school anyway?\u00a0 Okay, if you went to Ridgemont High, or were a member of The Breakfast Club, I could understand being nostalgic.\u00a0\u00a0 But we were all schleps.\u00a0 My friend, this guy Thomas\u2026 I was certainly a schlep.\u00a0 Zits, untouched by women, uncomfortable in my skin, a prisoner of adults, no money, no car\u2026 There was nothing good about high school.<\/p>\n
My theory is that, as my generation rolls into their 30\u2019s, they start to get nervous.\u00a0 Jesus died at 33, why are we any better?\u00a0 Now, Mohammed made it to 63.\u00a0 Of course, he died like a pussy.\u00a0 You know, that should determine which religion is stronger.\u00a0 Mohammed \u2013 dies of a little migraine after a lifetime of great deeds.\u00a0 Jesus \u2013 dies like the fucking lunatic he was after three years of stirring up trouble and living closely with men.<\/p>\n
No, I just ended up creating confusion there.<\/p>\n
So, anyway, I wrote this article about turning 30 and how it\u2019s a new lease on life and we should all just shut up and enjoy it.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t even read my articles, so there\u2019s no use linking it.\u00a0 The larger point is that high school was\u2026well, forever ago.\u00a0 Let go.\u00a0 Nothing was achieved in high school, nothing good was done.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s because people can\u2019t make friends anymore?\u00a0 We\u2019re so far removed by overworking, the internet, whatever.\u00a0 In high school, we all had our stupid little clique, our closed group of fellow schleps who mocked and brutalized us as much as our enemies.\u00a0 Maybe we look back at that sense of false belonging and we realize how lonely we are now.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019m just sitting here being angsty about this because I met all my best friends after high school and am frustrated by people who still cling to their high school group 15 years later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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