I was looking through old pictures on facebook and feeling really old: high school feels like it happened FOREVER ago!!! I was on the phone with my mom while I was looking at them and I was making fun of my horrible choice in clothes and berating her for buying the ugly items for me. How dare she have let me out of the house!
To be fair, she did tell me I looked like an idiot. Specifically I had this watch that she used to joke probably screwed up my times in track. She was probably right. Not only does it look like it weighs five pounds, but it sticks off my wrist like an aerodynamic nightmare.
I knew even back then that my choices in "fashion" were heinous and unpopular but I didn't want to spend the money to look popular. I also remember thinking that I didn't want to look especially cute because I didn't want people to like me just for my hair or my clothes or my makeup. And so I might have pictures of me wearing glasses that take up half my face and purple knit fishing hats (oh yes) but eventually I found myself some people who wore over-all jeans and mittens in the summer. In short: people like me. And they became forever friends, the ones like you read about in cheesey paperbacks aimed at junior high girls.
Popular I was not.
But I still had a fairy tale high school experience.
~*~Dedicated to my BFF Sarah ;-P ~*~
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