It's been a minute... I love modern technology!

Okay, so one of my new year's resolutions was to use this more as a tool to vent, to praise, to learn and to basically just let go on. Too bad, for the life of me I could not remember my password or SCREEN NAME. I didn't give it much thought until today when I couldn't fight the urge... I had to post.

This one is dedicated to myspace.com

As you know I am an educator, and a nosey one at that teaching some of the "finest" students in all of southern California. To make a long story short a friend of mine called me an hipped me to all the people we went to high school with that had their own page.

Let me give you a little background information. Last June was my 10 year high school reunion. I didn't go to the festivities but I did go to the happy hour the night before. I went, and people really didn't recognize me. Granted, in 1995, I was inspired by TLC stayed in the boots with baggy jeans, suspenders, fitted shirts and I came in with a peasant skirt, wedges and a tank top, but I didn't think I looked that different. My hair was down and back then it was always in a ponytail or a bun, but things hadn't changed that much

I realized in an instant that these people don't know me now and really didn't know me then. The people that I wanted to maintain contact with, I still do to this day. I went to a school where in a class of 465 seniors only 25 of us were black, and of those 25 only 4 of them were boys. I had friends of every nationality imaginable from every walk of life. I remember when I believed that those were days... when wearing the latest, who was dating who, who was giving it up, and where were you going to college really defined me. I started the year thinking, I have to get right so that I wow them when I walk in to my reunion. Please. In the end I had a community service project that I was doing with one of my other groups and opted to do that rather than mob up to the Hyatt and see these people again.

Fast forward to myspace.com. I set up an account so that I could view more of the profiles of my students, and stumbled across people that I went to high school with. Some people are doing their thing. Married, children, owning homes, sitting on college degrees, awesome careers etc. Some people seem to spend so much time on myspace, that I wonder how they even have jobs? I have reunited with a few people that I lost contact with that I probably would have never touched had it not been for modern technology.

My favorite has been the men that have "found" me and have professed their undying love...ha, what's your name again? Time changes people. I am perhaps far more cynical than I was 10 years ago. In those years, I have loved, been loved, dealt with the death of someone I loved on more than one occasion, and sat in an ICU while someone I loved held on. I AM NOT THE SAME PERSON. I realize what matters now is the little things that I used to take for granted... myspace has served to put a great number of things into perspective.