Jeff! Sooo many gurls with _ _ _ hair at grad!! Too bad.… Hee… Don’t u just love all the flash movies on our site?!? I’m sure U love them soooooo much! U hafta get back into sc man!! We need more ppl to play with! Hmm… wut do u think of the car­toons on our site?? There sup­pose to be me and teresa, her hairs col­ored _ _ _!!!! Don’t get any wrong ideas, or else i’ll have to do a lot more photo editing!

I found this shout-out from an old web­site of a friend. He made it in the last year of high school, which was a long time ago, see­ing as how it’s been ten years.

The blank word is red. Yep. I went through a looooooong red hair phase with the girls. Not that it’s really over, as red hair is still a pref­er­ence, only more sub­dued. And “sc”, that stands for Starcraft, which was a big game with every­one in our clique. We would go home after school, some­times to each other’s houses, and bat­tle each other online. We’d even go so far as to cre­ate sce­nar­ios of dif­fer­ent units fac­ing off against each other to ana­lyze how effec­tive they were in dif­fer­ent situations.

It’s strange to read these words, because I was never really pop­u­lar in high school, and cer­tainly not pop­u­lar enough for some­one to give me props. Actually, I was a loner (which is why I got along with John, who was another loner) until the very last year when I changed schools, and met peo­ple who were a lit­tle more like me, and less offensive.

I don’t know why I enjoy old mem­o­ries like this, or why they affect me so much. Maybe because I’m an intro­vert. It’s said that intro­verts go back to mem­o­ries for stim­u­la­tion. I’ve always found a dis­tinct plea­sure in rem­i­nisc­ing about old times, when I may have been more dam­aged, but more inno­cent too. It’s like inno­cence is the only thing you have no con­trol over los­ing. As you grow older, you learn more about how the world works, and a once naïve opti­mism is replaced with the cold, hard real­i­ties of life.

You think of how nice it would be to have the mind of a child again, when your biggest worry was what to wear and whether she likes you, but you can never go back.