High School Reunion
Easy Silence
Dixie Chicks
When the calls and conversations
Accidents and accusations
Messages and misperceptions
Paralyze my mind
Busses, cars, and airplanes leaving
Burning fumes of gasoline
And everyone is running
And I come to find a refuge in the
Easy silence that you make for me
It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me
And the peaceful quiet you create for me
And the way you keep the world at bay for me
The way you keep the world at bay
Monkeys on the barricades
Are warning us to back away
They form commissions trying to find
The next one they can crucify
And anger plays on every station
Answers only make more questions
I need something to believe in
Breathe in sanctuary in the
Easy silence that you make for me
It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me
And the peaceful quiet you create for me
And the way you keep the world at bay for me
The way you keep the world at bay
Children lose their youth too soon
Watching war made us immune
And I've got all the world to lose
But I just want to hold on to the
Easy silence that you make for me
It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me
And the peaceful quiet you create for me
And the way you keep the world at bay for me
The easy silence that you make for me
It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me
And the peaceful quiet you create for me
And the way you keep the world at bay for me
The way you keep the world at bay for me
The way you keep the world at bay
*sighs and continues on with her post, feeling completely drained by the days events*
Yes, I am still on my Dixie Chicks kick. I actually think their new album is just simply awesome and thank the gods for my father letting me have his copy.
However, this isn't a music review post. This was going to be a post about my high school reunion, but here's what I have to say about that: I came, I saw, I conquer, I left. I now realize why I am so happy I left high school behind and never looked back.
Actually, the whole thing was rather hilarious as it wasn't so much as a 'reunion' as it was a 'union' (to quote someone). These people still hang out with each other and see each other almost all the time. A couple of them even go out on weekends and party together. I'm just sitting there thinking, "What the hell? Have I entered the Sweet Valley High Universe and no one bothered to tell me?"
The funniest thing was getting hit on by someone who used to tell me how ugly I was, how I would never have a boyfriend and how no guy would be desperate enough to every marry me. Yet, as soon as I came out as a lesbian, he hit on me and I was like, "Dude, I didn't think you were hot in high school, I don't think your hot now, and your ego probably makes up for your lack of dick size." And he just kind of looked at me and walked away.
Of course, I had to get the one person who freaked out and was so afraid I was going to hit on her and I was like, "You're straight and straight women are something I do not go after or mess with." And after that, she seemed to calm down. Sheesh, are we still stuck in the 1990's mentality here?
I guess the greatest thing about it was when I walked in the room and everyone commented on how much I've changed. I don' t think I've changed all that much, but I guess I have. At least looks wise. Personality wise, I know I have. However, I've done what I said I always would: I went to my 10-year reunion and that is the last one I will probably go too. I won't say I'll never go to another one again, but in all likely hood, this was the first, last and only one I will go too.
starrmoonchyld was right, there are two types of people who go to high school reunions. The preppy people, who see each other every weekend and want an excuse to show off and people like myself who go to laugh at the preppy people and remember why I didn't like them in the first place.
High school is in the past, and while at the reunion, I felt sorry for the ones who never seemed to leave high school behind and still are stuck in the same mentality they had back then. These are the people who made my life a living hell for four years, who believed I would never be anything and I believed them until recently. These are the people who married someone in our graduating class, who still see the same people and have the same friends they did in high school and never branched out and have tried something new.
The way I showed up today, full of confidence and just being who I am now, it shocked the hell out of all of them, because their mentality is, "Well, we haven't changed, why should she have?" They did tell me they tried to find me, and like I told them, "We don't exactly travel in the same circles." They all go to each others houses for barbeques and their children play together, and some of them car pool to work together.
For a minute, I thought I was in an episode of "Desperate Housewives." Then I realized that this was their reality, not mine, and I could leave this behind and go back to my life, back to the people that I know care about me and don't care who I was or what I was in high school.
And in the end, that's all that matters to me.