I know it's funny to think of another state as an exotic foreign country. I'd had this idea for a long time that South Carolina was about as backward a state as there was. My junior high school librarian used to say that the SC State Education Motto was, "Thank God for Mississippi!" because we were consistently ranked #49 in education when compared to other states, and Mississippi was consistently ranked #50. That might have changed by now, but it really burned into my head when she said that. I thought the rest of the US must be full of much smarter, more cosmopolitan people than my public high school. Of course, now I look at those people and they seem just as interesting to me as anyone else, which is to say they're pretty interesting. I don't just assume people whose lives aren't like mine are somehow less interesting than I am, which I think I used to do. It's easy, particularly when you have grown up a bit 'different', to come to the conclusion that other people just aren't as good/smart/spiritual/creative/alive/whatever as you, I think. While that's one of the things that makes living in a world where you feel different and set apart from other people bearable, it's a valuable lesson to learn that everybody has something wonderful and interesting inside them.
I do have some Facebook friends from my public high school and even from before, and they're usually happy to hear from me (or they seem to be), but only one or two people from that time in my life has actually sought me out.
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Date: 2008-10-15 08:01 am (UTC)I do have some Facebook friends from my public high school and even from before, and they're usually happy to hear from me (or they seem to be), but only one or two people from that time in my life has actually sought me out.