I was on Facebook yesterday, piddling around when I get a message from someone. He was the older brother to someone I went to high school with. He seemed friendly enough, until it seemed he was looking for some college students to help with some kind of ‘business opportunity.’ (Usually means telemarketing in my book. NO THANKS! LOL!) But, it got me to thinking about high school life again.

I Wasn’t Popular
I wasn’t picked on, but I wasn’t popular, either. I had a few people here and there that I talked with on a regular basis, but overall, I didn’t really seem to fit in anywhere. (Well, this applies to when I went to high school in Mount Juliet, not Spring Hill, Florida.) I never went to the parties, gatherings, etc. I had my part time job at McDonald’s, went out shopping on the weekend, and struggled through quite a few personal issues. I’m not saying everyone were jerks, only saying that I didn’t really ‘belong’ to any particular clique, so I didn’t really get noticed by anyone.

I Occasionally See People I knew, Usually Don’t Care
Every so often, I’ll see familiar faces around town, or on the ‘net. I’ll be honest and say I usually don’t give a shit. Why? They are normally people who didn’t really interact with me in high school. I have never understood why some people feel the need to ‘reconnect’ with people they barely knew. (Other than perhaps curious to see if I’m doing better than them.) With Mount Juliet High School almost exclusively, I rarely wonder about how people I knew there are doing, let alone want to specifically see them again.

I Sometimes Find Surprises
I heard from a friend yesterday that I hadn’t heard of since my sophomore year in Spring Hill. (On Facebook, no less.) Sometimes, I’ll be pleasantly surprised at how some of my friends I knew back in high school, have really seemed to grow up to be doing just fine, and living a good life. I’m not always bitter about high school. There are a lot of people, again mostly in Spring Hill, who I learned a lot from, and continue to keep in touch with every so often.

I’m Doing Better Than Some
I laugh sometimes when I see some of these people who were ‘popular’ in school, but are total dead-beats now that they’ve ‘grown up.’ I see people my age who are fresh out of college, already spawning crotch fruit, or partying every night, or are real gutter trash. I may not be making a three-figure income, but I’m relatively happy with my life at the moment. I’m sure there are more than a few people who can’t say the same thing. That in itself makes me feel better every time I think about it.