Reverie

[herewiss13]

It's been seven years since I graduated from high school. Sunday night, a classmate of mine nearly put a bullet into someone's head, it literally skipped off his scalp. One died of a drug overdose years ago. Several are married (which really should surpise no one but me).The little sister of one is not only married, but now expecting...in a good way (if that makes sense). One just passed the bar (well, we assume so. The results aren't out yet, but she's both brilliant and industrious.) Another, after working as an assistant producer for touring childrens shows just settled down as alumni director for a school he never went to.

And I, the class brainiac, have yet to get my degree and am working as a call router for tech support...not even a computer tech, just an operator for them

...and this is actually an _improvement_ over the past few years of my life. ;-)

Looking forward from high school, you never expect that kind of spread. Sure, you might know about Gaussian curves (well, _I_ would, being the brainiac), but these are the people you grew _up_ with, the same core group you went to school with ever since first grade. And if you don't know where you'll end up yourself, you really can't have the foggiest clue where everyone else is going to be.

I still can't get over the picture of the shooter in the paper. He looked so _angry_. I'm not saying he was a model citizen during high school, but still. What could have happened over 7 years to do that to someone?

Where will we all be seven years from _now_?





...and it's the fact that I can get this maudlin-ly philosophical sober that means I will never _ever_ get drunk.

Comments

[akiah.livejournal.com]

you think that's bad? try living in a teeny town where you can just go and _find_ them all. what's left of them, anyway. your spread sounds a lot better than mine...most of the old classmates i've run into have become drug addicts, burger flippers, or single parents. i don't think i've met a single one yet that has actually made something useful of themself. i predict that in 10 years, half will be dried up husks of what they were in highschool, barely making it, and the other half won't be around anymore to wonder about.