the other day i stumbled across a picture of this girl who i sang with in high school choir. i had a huge crush on her at one point (this was usually the case with every girl in the choir) but we ended up with a pretty cool friendship. she moved away and we lost touch over the years.
so, when i see her profile she is (of course) married and (of course) has kids, further reminding me that i belong to some misfit tribe of late-20-somethings who chose this weird single free-floating lifestyle. instead of raising children, i write in a blog. instead of being married, i hang out in bars.
we all make our choices. there are moments when i feel like a complete and total fuckup and i'm sure she has moments where she wished she was at a dance party at 1:00am on a friday night.
it all balances out.
anyway, the comment she left me was pretty hilarious:
Phil! It HAS been 10 years- wow! You were an extra in a music video?! Sounds like things are going very well for you! Thanks for sending me a message, I love catching up!
since that what was currently on my wall, that's what she went with. but i wanted to be like "well, actually, that's not all.. i made my OWN music videos.. twice! and i toured for 5 years and saw the country. and i got a marketing degree. and i've been on all these crazy adventures." but obviously that would have just been weird.
and the thing is, i did the same thing to her. i saw she's married and has a kid and lives in roanoke. but i have no idea what the hell she's been doing the past ten years of her life. a million things, good and bad, have happened in her life since i last saw her, and all i have to go on is some wall posts and a few pictures. i forget what i wrote on her wall but it was something like "oh i see you're married now! looks like life is going well! blah blah.."
i just think it's funny that there's someone from my past on facebook whose basic knowledge of the last ten years of my life was my role as an extra in the riot before video.
at least, however, she didn't ask me about my robot i was building.
4 comments:
Yeah.
Sigh.
The internet.
"lost touch over the years"
its been 10 years!!!! thats so many years!
what you said makes it sound like...5, which is still a lot, but you could have been realistic and said "lost touch over the past "DECADE".
thats so many chances to have snagged you a piece before HER piece pumped out some babys.
sayin'
Replace "girl I had a crush on" with "girl I was best friends with", and I can relate.
I'm behind in life. At least I have good taste.
x
allison
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