Okay it is time for another gas price update. Sure the economy sucks these days but it sure helps me with the costs of running my vehicles.
I am so hoping that prices can get as low as they were when I started driving. If I am not mistaken that was around the $0.88 mark. Do you think we can get it that low ever again? A couple of months ago I would have thought that there was no way in hell, now I am not so sure it is out of reach.
Over the last few days I have been getting back in touch with people and friends I knew back in high school. After looking through their pictures and reading some bios and having little message conversations it has shocked my stagnant mind into the reality that I am not a kid anymore and neither are they.
My mind’s eye still sees these people that I have lost touch with over the last 15+ years to be exactly the same as they were back in the early 90s. The girls of course still have big hair and too much make-up. They are cute and bubbly and have no cares in the world. The guys are still young and thin and reckless, trying to hit on the bubbly girls.
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There is a sense of oddness about seeing these people with serious jobs. It is quite bizarre to think that they have found their true life mates and settled down in a home. Don’t even get me started on the concept of them having children.
Sometimes when I talk to my old schoolmates I feel a bit hesitant at first but eventually I get the same old feelings again and try to talk to them like I did back when I was a kid. Oddly enough I think that I weird people out this way. I keep forgetting that people have other lives that are much more important than their past friendships with a guy who also has more important things going on.
I tend to also find myself thinking that those people back in the day that I found to be douche bags could not possibly be the same as they were then. I expect that they would have grown up and become respectable and decent human beings. The issue, however, is that I am not willing to find out. I didn’t like them back then and I feel like I don’t want to go through learning to loathe them all over again.
All in all I think reconnecting with lost friendships is a good thing. Although, one of the only things my schoolmates and I had in common was where we matriculated, I think it is only a good thing to be able to go back in time and relive those times while at the same time finding new and more interesting things to share with each other. It is quite possible that new, less fabricated and juvenile friendships can be created from this.
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