Reminiscing on Middle School

Lynae N.

April 25, 2010 - 9:50 PM

I was able to have a few of my friends from the cohort over at my house this weekend for a clothing exchange. I didn't know how many people to expect but because of the time in the program, we were a relatively small bunch. I divided up the different rooms in my house for clothes to go in and we all walked through looking at, trying on, and making others try on our discarded clothes.

Before long we ended up in the shirt room which happens to be my daughter's room. Some of us sat on the floor, some sprawled out on the ground, and some flopped across Shae's bed. It felt like a slumber party! We told silly stories about our lives when we were her age, reflecting back on the coolest activities in our day in age (e.g. three way calling, staying up all night to request songs and talk with radio DJ's, and painting nails). It was such a fun time and it was neat to think how familiar the feeling felt.

This was a neat symbolic sort of time where we could laugh and bond about the past. It was strange to think that moments like these will soon be something of the past and our graduation is only a few short weeks away. I am struck by this and the speed of this term is cruel. I wish I could separate out paper time and life time and make them two separate things. I'd like to speed up the work to get it done but slow down life to savor it. Since this isn't possible I will try to take a few precious moments to connect with my friends and bond with them in ways I haven't been able to before. Maybe we'll have time to squeeze in a real slumber party, complete with N Sync, burping contests, and all talking to a crush on the phone at the same time.