I never thought of us as innocent-- more like stupid. And while I don't see a lot of differences between me then and me now, I know what the few differences are. Granted, I was never really in the middle of all of that drama, so I have no hurt to deal with aside from normal teen angst... But I think most of us got taken down a notch (or at least I hope) and I don't know if I miss those times, either. I mean, I guess I miss the people (especially Jen-- she seems kind of imaginary now), but mostly I just feel weirded out.
What exactly do you mean by weirded out? I take back what I said earlier to say that I guess I don't know what you mean, Alison.
Personally, I never thought of us as stupid... Or innocent... Just us, back then, and like you, Alison, I don't see many differences between us now and then. We're just us, here in a different place, with different experiences.
We must keep in mind that memory does tend to smooth things over for us.
Weirded out just mostly means that looking back at ourselves (and trying to remember the time that those pictures were taken) is a little strange, and trying to imagine myself as an earlier self is, too. It's not some cosmic-weirdness... it's just funny, that's all.
I think some of the stupidity we had was just from being in highschool and thinking we were more the shit. I mean, it's not like I'm not the shit now, and I don't think that if we were faced with the same decisions now as we were then, we'd do much differently. I don't think we're THAT much better. But I do think, like I said, that we're a little less arrogant and teenager-like then back then.
Basically, when I think of us back then I wonder why I thought we were so rad. But this is just me, and my experience is bound to be different than yours, which is different than Andy's.
I guess we're all different that way. I looked back at that particular moment in such a odd and rambling way because it seems like that was pretty close to when things got weird between everyone. I'd seems a little more innocent to me because that was the begining of the end of the time that I looked at that group and everyone like a second family and shortly afterwards relized we wouldn't be again
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I never thought of us as innocent-- more like stupid. And while I don't see a lot of differences between me then and me now, I know what the few differences are. Granted, I was never really in the middle of all of that drama, so I have no hurt to deal with aside from normal teen angst... But I think most of us got taken down a notch (or at least I hope) and I don't know if I miss those times, either. I mean, I guess I miss the people (especially Jen-- she seems kind of imaginary now), but mostly I just feel weirded out.
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Personally, I never thought of us as stupid... Or innocent... Just us, back then, and like you, Alison, I don't see many differences between us now and then. We're just us, here in a different place, with different experiences.
We must keep in mind that memory does tend to smooth things over for us.
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I think some of the stupidity we had was just from being in highschool and thinking we were more the shit. I mean, it's not like I'm not the shit now, and I don't think that if we were faced with the same decisions now as we were then, we'd do much differently. I don't think we're THAT much better. But I do think, like I said, that we're a little less arrogant and teenager-like then back then.
Basically, when I think of us back then I wonder why I thought we were so rad. But this is just me, and my experience is bound to be different than yours, which is different than Andy's.
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