Past Lives

I've been on the computer all day and my vision is getting blurry. But I haven't been pointlessly surfing the net or checking myspace. I was actually trying to do something constructive. But when I did finally check myspace, I had a new friend request and I was like, ok, what weirdo is writing to me now about "let's hook up" and what-not....Well, it wasn't a guy. It was a girl who asked me if I remembered her, that we went to elementary school together! Now hold up a minute, I thought. Can this be?

You see, I have long wanted to hook up with old school chums from way way back, and I do mean way back, even before high school. For this Classmates dot com can't help. And alas, most gals get married and change their last name so I have no hope of finding them, even if I can remember their names, which I often can't. You see, I went to 3 elementary schools, 3 junior high schools and 5 high schools. So it's hard to keep track. But there are some very prominent memories of some great times with fun people I wish I could re-live. Sometimes the past is better off left alone though, so I hope this person doesn't ruin my wonderful memories for me, ha ha. No, I doubt she will. She says she has drawings I did. This is not uncommon. I want to contact my best friend from middle school because she kept 3 notebooks full of stories I wrote which she loved. She encouraged me a lot, she did, saying I was smarter than her and that I should be going on to Yale (as she did eventually). She read a lot, too, and we both became big fans of "Gone With the Wind", her favorite book. Good times in eigth grade! I lost track of her eventually. She got ready to go to Yale and I started hanging out with an out gay friend and that was where we parted ways. I wonder if she's a doctor now...?