So I was a bit bored at work today and I got to thinking about high school. I'm 21 now and in college halfway across the country form where I was born but I was curious to see what people were up to where I went. I haven't seen any of them for over 6 years, in the beginning of my junior year my dad got a job at Cisco in San Jose so my whole family moved from some crap little town in OK so another crap little town in CA south of SJ. 
Anyway, I ended up going to a couple different hish schools here but I was mostly focusing on the first one, since I had gone there since 5th grade. I browsed through Myspace (yeah yeah, I hate it too but everyone's on it) and I found a guy that was in my grade. It was a bit of a pity since he was not nearly as cute as I remember but I clicked on his school link and found a bunch of other people I knew while going there.
And the thing was none of them had changed a bit. Okay maybe a little but some of the kids I went to this little church group turned into the classic fundamentalist type, a good sized chunk went into the army and it seemed that most of the girls were already married and had a couple kids right out of high school. I did see the profile of this one guy who was a total flamer and finally admitted he was gay so that was a highlight.
My sister moved back there with my mom (dad's still here until the house sells, then he's back there too) and they ended up moving into roughly the same area where we lived before, close enough where my sister went to the same school that she and I went before. I saw her a couple weeks ago when she came to visit for spring break and she was telling me how it was pretty much the same as when we left it.
I haven't been back in over four years mostly due to my extended family on my mom's side, the one that I'm closest to, didn't take too kindly to me coming out (long story) so while they've warmed up a bit since then, I still don't feel comfortable visiting them yet, maybe winter holidays next year but not anytime soon. Given the fact that according to my sister, not much has changed, I was also wondering if I would run into anybody I used to know when I was visiting. I consciously don't really want to because I've changed a lot since then as opposed to much of them and I'm certainly not the same person that they knew, not to mention being quite a conservative state that has its share of fundies which I have no desire to interact with on any level, I remain a bit curious to what they would say if they saw me again.
"Hey, didn't you used to be..."
Anyhoo, I'm not sure what the point of this thread is, its just something that was on my mind tonight.
-Ani
Anyway, I ended up going to a couple different hish schools here but I was mostly focusing on the first one, since I had gone there since 5th grade. I browsed through Myspace (yeah yeah, I hate it too but everyone's on it) and I found a guy that was in my grade. It was a bit of a pity since he was not nearly as cute as I remember but I clicked on his school link and found a bunch of other people I knew while going there.And the thing was none of them had changed a bit. Okay maybe a little but some of the kids I went to this little church group turned into the classic fundamentalist type, a good sized chunk went into the army and it seemed that most of the girls were already married and had a couple kids right out of high school. I did see the profile of this one guy who was a total flamer and finally admitted he was gay so that was a highlight.
My sister moved back there with my mom (dad's still here until the house sells, then he's back there too) and they ended up moving into roughly the same area where we lived before, close enough where my sister went to the same school that she and I went before. I saw her a couple weeks ago when she came to visit for spring break and she was telling me how it was pretty much the same as when we left it.
I haven't been back in over four years mostly due to my extended family on my mom's side, the one that I'm closest to, didn't take too kindly to me coming out (long story) so while they've warmed up a bit since then, I still don't feel comfortable visiting them yet, maybe winter holidays next year but not anytime soon. Given the fact that according to my sister, not much has changed, I was also wondering if I would run into anybody I used to know when I was visiting. I consciously don't really want to because I've changed a lot since then as opposed to much of them and I'm certainly not the same person that they knew, not to mention being quite a conservative state that has its share of fundies which I have no desire to interact with on any level, I remain a bit curious to what they would say if they saw me again.
"Hey, didn't you used to be..."
Anyhoo, I'm not sure what the point of this thread is, its just something that was on my mind tonight.
-Ani
