Blogging resolution

I was looking back today at some of my past blog entries, and realized that a) I don't write about the same things that I used to write about, i.e. my day to day life, and b) I don't write nearly as often. Maybe I shouldn't have started a blog the year I was planning my wedding, because that made it way too easy to write and write and write. Now that seems to have dried up. Of course there are other things in my life (i.e. work) that have contributed to not writing as often I as I should or want to. But I'm not going down that road right now, soon, but not now.

I love when my friends update their blogs, so I am going to be completely egotistical here, and assume they also look forward to my new entries, regardless of what I am rambling on about, like right now. I really have no set ideas or direction for this entry - just maniacal ramblings.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about my past, namely high school. Why? Well, with a ten-year reunion right around the corner that's what people tend to do. I have been looking back at the self I was in high school, and in some ways I am completely the same; and in ways I am totally different. I believe when you are a teenager you are the groundwork for who you will become as an adult, but you don't truly become who you are until you can leave the superficialities of high school (and to some extent university) behind; by the time you hit 28 it really no longer matters if you were cool or not; a jock or a nerd; you all end up in the same boat (more or less) with bills to pay, mouths to feed, work/school stress and so on.

Many of my friends have recently attended their 10-year reunions, and they have all shared the same opinions with me. It really wasn't that bad; everyone had matured; everyone was genuinely interested in what everyone else was doing.

On that note, I am looking forward to my reunion; yes I have stayed in touch with my closest friends from Crofton, but that doesn't mean just because I haven't talked to someone in ten years and wasn't that close to them in high school, that I don't care where they are and what they're up to - quite the contrary. And I hope the same is true for my former classmates.