Almost a year ago when I started this blog I really didn't know what would happen with it. I knew what I wanted, but obviously there was no way of predicting exactly what would happen. All I knew for certain was that I still had very fond memories of my high school days and wondered if anyone else out there did too.
I also had our 20th reunion in mind. When anyone asks me about reunions I have always told them about that one. In my mind it shines more than any reunion before or since. That reunion had a great turn out and everyone seemed genuinely happy to see everyone else. Even my wife commented on it and how warm and friendly and happy everyone seemed to be with one another. It didn't seem to matter where we lived, who we married, what kind of job we had, what we had done with our lives, or anything else people use to measure each others success or failure. We were there to spend time together and have fun, and that's all there was to it.
I've often played the game of wondering what things would be like if I hadn't left Loudon or somehow chose another path, and it always comes back to the same conclusion --- I wouldn't really be that much different than I am today. I would obviously have a different job and family, but I would still have the same likes, dislikes, qualities and faults. I would be the same me, just in different surroundings.
In a nutshell, I used to think I was the only one who thought things like that, but now I know I'm not. In reading what everyone else has added to this blog, it's obvious that we felt the same about a lot of things. Almost the same needs, fears and worries. Would we be accepted, would that certain someone notice us, could we handle what the world was going to throw at us, and a host of other questions we faced.
We may have looked different, came from different sized families and from different parts of the county, but we were the same too. And we still are.
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