High School Yearbook

High School Yearbook

I was never one for caring about my high school. I moved around a lot so I was never in one place for very long.

Love is not finding someone to live with. Love is finding someone you cannot live without.
Author: unknown

I had friends wherever I went, but none of them were what you would call lifelong friends. I didnt ever bother with the yearbook because I knew that I would be leaving soon enough. I did end up graduation from the school where I stared kindergarten, and because it was my last year, I decided to get my high school yearbook to remember something about the people I had known.

I remember getting my high school yearbook, but I have no idea what I have done with it. It seems to be missing and Im not sure I will ever find it. I must have left it somewhere, and that somewhere might be a place I cannot get back to. If I left my high school yearbook when I moved away from the city, it is gone forever. Im not too beat up about it though, as I have long moved past most of those friends, though I do miss them and I hope they are doing well.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Author: Eugene Kennedy

I guess because I moved so much that I could never get attached to anyone or anything, and it just became to painful back then to really have any close friends. I had friends, and seeing a high school yearbook to remember them would be OK, but it wouldnt be the same feeling most people get when they leaf through one. I guess I protected myself from the pain of separation by never getting to close to anyone who might smile up at me from the pages of a high school yearbook. I did it to stop the pain.

I got over that, and now have many close friends that I cant imagine not having in my life. I got over having to block my heart from anyone, as I am now in charge of my own life, not my parents. I remember leafing through my moms high school yearbook and seeing how many wonderful things her friends had written about her. I cant blame my parents from having to move so often, and I cant really blame anyone for the fact that I learned to block people out. I just dont miss anyone, though perhaps that would change if I could find my high school yearbook. It doesnt matter though, as I have a full life now, and I know that though some think that life began and ended in high school, but I dont. Life is good now. How do we get a yearbook for that?

Joy is not in things-it is in us.
Author: Richard Wagner