I feel like I am living in a slow, strange reunion of sorts. In the past few weeks, old pictures from middle school, high school, and college have been showing up on Facebook. Some of them are of me and others of friends. It is truly strange. I don't know whether to laugh, cry, celebrate, or run screaming from my computer because who knows how many people have been reminded just how scary my awkward phase was.
My old pictures were living in a shoe box at the back of a cabinet until the overwhelming compulsion to look through them overtook me! I thought I would share one that I found...the dance team at Bearden High School in 1989-1990. I am choosing NOT to share my middle school cheerleader picture (because it is MUCH scarrier)... just in case you haven't yet seen it on facebook! Who needs reunion only once every 10 years when you can have your past and present crash into each other on a daily basis on Facebook?!?! It is crazy that I am getting notes on any given day from friends from Kindergarten (at a small Christian school in Knoxville, TN) and friends from MOPS (here in WI). I am reconnecting with people I thought I would never see or hear from again on this earth.
The problem with Facebook (for me!) is that while it is a fun walk down memory lane and an easy way to stay "connected" (if you call it that)...you don't REALLY connect. You chat. You keep things light and airy. You go about as deep as you do during sorority rush, and that, my friends, was my issue with rush to begin with. So, as I watch my friend count go up, I wish that I could have a lunch date or coffee with each person to really, truly connect.
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