Nov 01, 2005 23:31
On Tuesday's, I'm suppose to meet my friend Brad in between classes to hang out because he's also on a break. For the past couple weeks i've told him i'll meet him and then, inevitably text him w/ i'm just going to go home. Same thing today. But, I said why dont we get some food after my night class. We went to Abby's and ate a ton. When people that know each of us find out that we are actually pretty close friends, its the same reaction i get when they find out me and eric are friends. These guys have bad reputations, that they deserve, but not entirely. Anyway, we basically caught eachother up on the gossip about the mutual friends and eachother. We were there for almost 3 hours. We laughed about how we wished we could go back to the beginning of junior year. how fun that time was. How young we really were, before the world destroyed that naivety one night, and then two nights. How we really feel like we went thru our mid life crisis when we were 18 and 19.
Anyway, Brad is a social work major at NKU and he works at St. Joe's Orphanage. He was telling me some things tonight that just made me realize how lucky i was that i had a long period of innocence. He was telling me tonight that he has the cutest 7 year old girl, who was taken and put in her father's care when she was 3, and that she had been prostituted out by her mother. And there were countless other stories he told me, just like that, but worse, that made me realize that im so lucky to have loving parents and the best family.