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Up late unwinding by watching The Notebook on TV and when it got to the part where she was going away to school, it reminded me of when I went away. I packed up the car, waved goodbye to my parents as I pulled way and hit the road 400 miles to LA, pulled up to the dorm and saw everyone with their parents moving in.
It never crossed my mind that my ( Read more... )
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My closes friends in high school were all athletes - I guess you would say we were the jock crowd. My best friend was top 10 in the nation in swimming and got a full ride to UCLA, I was varsity and had a school record in track by the time I was a sophomore, and another close friend got a full ride in basketball. (We had a terrible football team and the football players were not popular kids at my high school. In fact, they were kind of made fun of.) And ALL my friends went away to school. If they hadn't, I'm not sure I'd have thought I needed to, but I didn't want to get left behind. It was totally my idea and my doing, but totally due to being influenced by the crowd I hung with.
But their parents ran their lives. They told them when to go to bed for a game or a meet, woke them up, drove them, told them when to do homework, etc. My parents never did any of that and I would have resented it if they had tried. I felt lucky I did NOT have parents like that and felt my parents trusted me where theirs didn't. Yes, I wish they might have been a little happier for me and understood why I wanted to go away, but I can't really get mad at them for wanting to keep me close to home.
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