High school friends...
Ok I admit it... I miss high school. Shock I know considering I was probably the one that wanted to leave it all behind the most. However you have to hear me out first. I don't miss the actual time in high school necessarily. I don't miss the set schdule or even seeing the same people everyday. I don't miss the easiness of the courses or the extra-ciricular activities. I don't miss the football games, the dances or skipping class. I don't miss most of the teachers. I don't even miss the security of a routine and people that know you.
I miss the people.
It was my friends that made the football games worth going to, the dances a blast, and the reason for skipping. One of the biggest reasons I chose Western (besides that I loved the Ed program the campus) was that I wanted so badly to branch out and make new friends. It wasn't that I didn't like the ones I had. But that was just it. I liked them so much I wanted more. I thought if I was able to find such an amazing group of friends in two small schools, I was bound to find even more on a campus of 30,000.
Wrong!
There is something about highscool that makes those relationships so much closer. Maybe it is the fact that you see each other almost every day or at least two or three times a week. Maybe it's the fact that you are younger and don't have as much fear of putting yourself out there and being vulnerable and open to new friends. In college it seems that only surface friendships develop. Or is it just me? My friends at State seem to have formed a college version of what we had in high school. I on the other hand just don't find many people here to be worth my time. It's not that I don't have people to hang out with...it's just nothing to get too excited about. I miss my friends from "back home" and would rather drive two hours to hang out with them or party with them than I would staying here and hanging out with people here.
Maybe it's me. Maybe I won't open up to the people I meet. Maybe I'm being a snob in thinking they are not worth my time. It's just that they don't seem genuine. And anyone that is worth it is tied down with their own priorities such as school and work and of course I have mine...
I miss you guys. Bottom line. I miss you.
I miss the people.
It was my friends that made the football games worth going to, the dances a blast, and the reason for skipping. One of the biggest reasons I chose Western (besides that I loved the Ed program the campus) was that I wanted so badly to branch out and make new friends. It wasn't that I didn't like the ones I had. But that was just it. I liked them so much I wanted more. I thought if I was able to find such an amazing group of friends in two small schools, I was bound to find even more on a campus of 30,000.
Wrong!
There is something about highscool that makes those relationships so much closer. Maybe it is the fact that you see each other almost every day or at least two or three times a week. Maybe it's the fact that you are younger and don't have as much fear of putting yourself out there and being vulnerable and open to new friends. In college it seems that only surface friendships develop. Or is it just me? My friends at State seem to have formed a college version of what we had in high school. I on the other hand just don't find many people here to be worth my time. It's not that I don't have people to hang out with...it's just nothing to get too excited about. I miss my friends from "back home" and would rather drive two hours to hang out with them or party with them than I would staying here and hanging out with people here.
Maybe it's me. Maybe I won't open up to the people I meet. Maybe I'm being a snob in thinking they are not worth my time. It's just that they don't seem genuine. And anyone that is worth it is tied down with their own priorities such as school and work and of course I have mine...
I miss you guys. Bottom line. I miss you.