Post by GreatMuppetyNick on Aug 31, 2006 23:08:39 GMT -5
I find myself thinking about the past a lot these days. Specifically, about the first girl I ever had a crush on (I don't know what brought that on. )
I think I must've been about 12 or 13 or so, and there was this girl who sat next to me in class. Anyway, back in those days, we sat together in these huge tables, instead one table each. I can't remember the specifics, but somehow or another, we started holding hands under the table.
I liked her quite a bit, and I fancy that she felt the same too, but this was the age where it was usually boys vs the girls. It wasn't quite like girls having cooties or something like that, but close enough. We played our roles in public, we talked bad about each other, you know ... the kind of things guys said about girl that age. And vice versa.
I only learnt much later that we didn't fool anybody. EVERYONE knew.
But it didn't last. After a year or so, we changed classes, and sort off ... drifted apart. The only time we were really together was in class, and when that stopped .... we, or more appropriately, I, was too afraid to actually pursue it in public.
We lost contact a long time back.
I did run into her a couple of years back. She seemed pretty happy, with her new baby and all.
Oh, did I mention, she was married now.
I don't really regret what I did when I was young, after all, being an idiot is what childhood really is about.
But sometimes, I kinda wonder how things would have turned out if I was less of an idiot. That's the best part about reminiscing, you get to wonder and imagine.
So, do you have anything in your past you sometimes wonder about? Or wish went differently?
I think I must've been about 12 or 13 or so, and there was this girl who sat next to me in class. Anyway, back in those days, we sat together in these huge tables, instead one table each. I can't remember the specifics, but somehow or another, we started holding hands under the table.
I liked her quite a bit, and I fancy that she felt the same too, but this was the age where it was usually boys vs the girls. It wasn't quite like girls having cooties or something like that, but close enough. We played our roles in public, we talked bad about each other, you know ... the kind of things guys said about girl that age. And vice versa.
I only learnt much later that we didn't fool anybody. EVERYONE knew.
But it didn't last. After a year or so, we changed classes, and sort off ... drifted apart. The only time we were really together was in class, and when that stopped .... we, or more appropriately, I, was too afraid to actually pursue it in public.
We lost contact a long time back.
I did run into her a couple of years back. She seemed pretty happy, with her new baby and all.
Oh, did I mention, she was married now.
I don't really regret what I did when I was young, after all, being an idiot is what childhood really is about.
But sometimes, I kinda wonder how things would have turned out if I was less of an idiot. That's the best part about reminiscing, you get to wonder and imagine.
So, do you have anything in your past you sometimes wonder about? Or wish went differently?