Wednesday, January 19, 2022

High school vs. Now

I don't know if you get the emails from Classmates.com trying to get you to reconnect with your high school friends (for a low fee of only $3 per month when you sign up for 3 months! What a deal!) 

It's an okay service, I suppose. But frankly if I want to reconnect with someone from high school I'm going to go on Facebook first and search for them.

The other thing is, after thirty-plus years (okay... closer to 40 years) out of high school I'm not sure what most of us would have in common. It's fun to reminisce. But I was thinking about how different I am today from what I was like in high school. I would hope people wouldn't judge me solely by my behavior  - or attitude, or the clothes I wore(!), back then. 

It's funny, a few years ago I had a high school friend reconnect with me on Facebook and tell me how happy he was to get in touch again. The thing is, I remember him as being kind of a bully in school. (He spit in my hair in junior high!) I'm guessing he's changed a bit, too.

So the question is, how long do you keep evaluating/judging a person based on what they've done? What if it was one year ago? Two? Ten? When do you give them a "fresh start"?


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