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November 02, 2005
Greetings From an Old Friend
About a week ago I was at the wedding of one of my very special friends, Bonnie. The wedding was fun and it was good to see people I hadn't seen in awhile. As we were leaving, I fell, hard. Not that this is a big surprise, as I tend to fall often. I was wearing fancy heeled boots and I was walking down a ramp and my feet flew out from under me. I landed flat on my back, got up and kept walking.
A week went by and I was in pain. My butt hurt so bad, it was hard to sit, walk, and stand. I was beginning to think I had either broken or badly bruised my tailbone. It took me awhile to put the pieces together and link the pain back to the fall. At first I thought my butt muscles were just sore because I had walked to work in heels twice in one week (my 1.5 mile each way, uphill both ways, walk). Soon enough though I started to realize the pain was under the butt, not in the muscles.
Anyway, I started joking about needing a doughnut pillow to carry around with me. This reminded me of an old friend, a good friend I once had. When I was in the 8th grade and she in the 7th, we didn't know each other too well. One morning while waiting for the bus to take us to our nerd school, Computech, she came up riding her bike and trying to show off by doing a wheelie. Well, let's just say she was wheelie-ing a little too close to the curb, down she went landing straight on her ass. There she was, in the 7th grade having to carry a doughnut pillow around with her at school.
This friend and I both ended up moving to a new school the following year and became good friends. We were definitely the odd ones at our new nazi school. We stayed friends through high school and were on mock trial together, in some plays together, and got to know eachother's families fairly well.
I "lost" contact with pretty much everyone I went to high school with - lost really means I just didn't put any energy into keeping up these relationships. I was so happy to be out I didn't want to look back. Now, it makes me just a little sad to have lost that part of me.
This last weekend, I found something that belonged to this friend of mine. I figured it was time I look her up. Thankfully she's on her way to becoming a big shot attorney, as we always knew she would, so it was easy to find her.
It's brought all sort of great warm & fuzzy feelings to me today. I hope that she holds as many warm memories of me as I do of her. I regret not valuing the friendships of my youth. I spent too much time wanting to grow up. There are a few people out there in the world that I want to have back by my side. Maybe it's too late, maybe I'll make newer better friends, or maybe, just maybe all people suck.
Posted by meloknee at November 2, 2005 02:55 PM
Comments
This fall you didn't tell me about. Are you still working on the exercises the pt gave you? Get with it, girl.
Posted by: justme at November 2, 2005 06:38 PM