Old Letters

One of the projects I want to accomplish while I am home is to go through some of my stuff and try to throw things out. While doing this, I found a couple of containers that I put in letters that my best friend and I wrote to each other almost EVERYDAY in high school...I think the batch I am looking at now are from our Sophomore year.

We would do interesting things in our letters. We'd make up songs about our crushes and we'd constantly try to out do one another in our letters and try to make each other blush with comments about our crushes. We would create two lists of guys and we'd have to choose between the lists. We had nicknames...I was Superwoman, my crush was Superman. She was Shera...her main crush was Heman and her other crush was Conan (as in the Barbarian, not O'Brien).

It is definitely a trip reading all of these letters. It's been close to 10 years since these letters were written and, naturally, so much has changed. It's a weird feeling, I mean, back then there wasn't a care in the world and now it's real life. The closest things we had to relationships were passing our crush on campus. The closest thing we had to responsibility was making sure our homework was done. No driving. No job. No bills. We had all the time in the world. I love where I'm at now, but sometimes I can't help but want the carefree simpleness of back then. But of course, to us back then, nothing was simple, everything was complicated. I wonder if I will look back 10 years from now and say how simple things were when I was almost 24.

I guess it is interesting to sit back and really think about what you've done in a certain given time. I marvel at how I am so quick to judge some of the teenagers I work with, even though I realize I'm sure I acted the same way they did when I was their age....which really wasn't long ago. I know most of this probably makes no sense...but it is amazing to look back and see a progression of yourself. I think I've done okay so far, I just hope the future holds the same thing.