Re: hmm....birthdays...
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:32:09 +1100
Marta's right ... rightly or wrongly, high school is kind of like the SS
Minnow. We're millionaires and beauty queens, geeks and cool kids and jocks
and what have you, all washed up on the same island and made to live with
one another. There's not really any other time in life when you are thrown
in with that many disparate people at that close a proximity. Anywhere else
in life - in a job or at university - you tend to have a group of people
heading for more or less the same thing and with the same interest in mind.
Having gone to a lot of 21st birthday parties recently I feel the kind of
rapport and empathy with my classmates as the survivor of ... well, an ill
fated Three Hour Tour (:
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
Marta wrote:
> Hello,
> I didn't mean that life ends at eighteen at all. I think what I was
> trying to say was that in high school there are so many different kinds
> of people to observe and interact with. I often find myself watching
> people in the cafeteria or in class because I see that I'm fascinated by
> how different from myself or my friends other people (people who are my
> *peers*) can be. I like to create characters from people I've met or
> have been fascinated by. This doesn't end with high school, of course,
> but I'm somehow under the impression that as soon as one enters the
> workforce all kinds of variety just vanish. I know that sounds
> absolutely ridiculous. I think, though, that maybe after high school the
> angst factor also diminishes and my view on many of these things will be
> altered.
>
> - Marta
>
> ______________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com