Pictures- an attempt to be completely honest.
I recently returned home after a reasonable incubation period of college. When I left, my mom turned my room what may be best described as a “memorial” of me. Pictures, awards dating back to elementary school adorn the walls. The pictures are hardest to look at. Even harder are the yearbooks. Girlfriends, girls that I should have made friends with, that picture of me with that grin of spiteful arrogance. I get a flash backs and that sinking feeling in my stomach when I look at all of this, thinking of who I was then.
Do you get that feeling when you look at yourself in pictures? The feeling is like the one you get right before you get in trouble.
I think the cause of this feeling is my current guilt for some of my behavior. Behavior like telling classmates of questionable intelligence that I'm destined for greatness, unlike their destiny of working at Jiffy lube. I also remember refusing to give a free autograph in their yearbook. I believe I said something along the lines of “since I would most likely not be frequenting Burger King or staying in this poo-dunk town with people who are so idiotic that they may forget to breath, it would be un-genuine of me to sign your yearbook because I don't gripe at all in the thought of never seeing you again." When that blank look of confusion would wash over their face I would translate. “I don't care about you enough to get your phone number just so I don't call you, and I don't want to give my name or phone number.”
That was mildly cruel. I should have just wrote in their yearbook...
“I hope you don't bring down the collective I.Q. of humanity by having children. Have a great life in and out of jail”
-James Bond.
You know what, I feel guilty for not writing that. I'll just have to live with that guilt.
I recently returned home after a reasonable incubation period of college. When I left, my mom turned my room what may be best described as a “memorial” of me. Pictures, awards dating back to elementary school adorn the walls. The pictures are hardest to look at. Even harder are the yearbooks. Girlfriends, girls that I should have made friends with, that picture of me with that grin of spiteful arrogance. I get a flash backs and that sinking feeling in my stomach when I look at all of this, thinking of who I was then.
Do you get that feeling when you look at yourself in pictures? The feeling is like the one you get right before you get in trouble.
I think the cause of this feeling is my current guilt for some of my behavior. Behavior like telling classmates of questionable intelligence that I'm destined for greatness, unlike their destiny of working at Jiffy lube. I also remember refusing to give a free autograph in their yearbook. I believe I said something along the lines of “since I would most likely not be frequenting Burger King or staying in this poo-dunk town with people who are so idiotic that they may forget to breath, it would be un-genuine of me to sign your yearbook because I don't gripe at all in the thought of never seeing you again." When that blank look of confusion would wash over their face I would translate. “I don't care about you enough to get your phone number just so I don't call you, and I don't want to give my name or phone number.”
That was mildly cruel. I should have just wrote in their yearbook...
“I hope you don't bring down the collective I.Q. of humanity by having children. Have a great life in and out of jail”
-James Bond.
You know what, I feel guilty for not writing that. I'll just have to live with that guilt.
