Reality Bites
Posted by Lynnster on April 25, 2008
My hometown (one of them) newspaper publishes a little blurb every day of “25 years ago”, “50 years ago”, and “75 years ago”, highlights and snippets from that day’s edition in those time periods of the paper. Lately there’s been some 90-something years ago ones, too, that I’m not really sure what happened to do because they were there for a few days, and now they’re not. But anyway.
I always get a kick out of it (especially the “75 years ago”, that stuff is downright hilarious sometimes) and read it every day. And it’s especially neat to me because a lot of days my dad or his siblings, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, other relatives, and even sometimes I will be in there (though not all that much for me, since we moved elsewhere when I was 13). It’s usually a nice few minutes out of my day every weekday, and pretty neat to read things that were in the paper 25/50/75 years ago like my dad playing football or baseball, my grandmother’s piano recital as a young girl, things like that.
So yesterday I’m reading the “25 years ago” column and - this being the end of the school year - the local high school had selected the members of the varsity cheerleading squad for the next year, and I’m reading the names, all of whom I knew because I either went to school with them or knew them from other local activities during the time I grew up there until we moved. I was reading, in particular, the names of the girls I actually did go to school with, the ones who were in my class.
Then I glanced at the “25 years ago” again. And then it slowly dawned on me that those girls were the SENIOR cheerleaders on the upcoming year’s squad.
Nope, it just hadn’t really occurred to me that next year will be 25 years since I graduated from high school. A quarter of a century. Yuck. And just where did that time go?
I’d be stunned, but I’m too old and tired to be stunned. Pardon me while I go take a nap now.
April 25, 2008 at 6:11 pm
In a couple years it will be twenty years since I graduated high school. Getting old sucks.
April 25, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Sometimes I see something like that that makes me stop and say “wait a sec, am I really that old”? It sucks and I try as quickly as possible to return to a state of denial.