Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Back in high school there was once a yearbook title of "Where Everybody Knows Your Name". At the time everyone thought it was the best fit for the attendees at Seaman High School. Thing is, it was just that, a place where everybody knew your name, yet they didn't know much more than that. The best quote to explain how I felt in high school comes from Jay-Z, "You only know what you see, you don't understand what it takes to be me." Again, oh so true. Although back in high school we knew everyones name, for the most part no one really KNEW each other. There are exceptions of course. I still have Nancy as one of my best friends...since second grade. Other than Nancy though, there just aren't too many people from high school that I still keep in touch with. Of course I see a few at the race track now and then and in college I would run into JP and a couple others on campus occasionally, but I can't say that I know them.

The other day I read a blog from one of my former classmates. I must say that I know we have all changed in the past 5-10 years, but I learned more in the 5 minutes I took to read that blog than I recall ever knowing through all of our years in school together. Now, that's sad. High school is what it is and there is a lot of drama. Looking back I wish that I had taken the time to get to know more people...or rather, that they had taken the time to get to know me. I am so pleased to be reconnecting with some of these old classmates now that we are out in the real world. Some were friends then and will never be more than aquantances now...and some were never more than aquantances then and will be friends moving forward. Either way, I will never forget the years spent in a place where everybody knew your name...yet I am so grateful for that time to be in my past and am so blessed with who I have become.