High School Yearbook

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by Saundra Christian

I was never one for caring about my high school. I moved around a lot so I was never in one place for very long. I had friends wherever I went, but none of them were what you would call lifelong friends. I didn’t ever bother with the yearbook because I knew that I would be leaving soon enough. I did end up graduation from the school where I stared kindergarten, and because it was my last year, I decided to get my high school yearbook to remember something about the people I had known.

I remember getting my high school yearbook, but I have no idea what I have done with it. It seems to be missing and I’m not sure I will ever find it. I must have left it somewhere, and that somewhere might be a place I cannot get back to. If I left my high school yearbook when I moved away from the city, it is gone forever. I’m not too beat up about it though, as I have long moved past most of those friends, though I do miss them and I hope they are doing well.

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The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down)It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

I guess because I moved so much that I could never get attached to anyone or anything, and it just became to painful back then to really have any close friends. I had friends, and seeing a high school yearbook to remember them would be OK, but it wouldn’t be the same feeling most people get when they leaf through one. I guess I protected myself from the pain of separation by never getting to close to anyone who might smile up at me from the pages of a high school yearbook. I did it to stop the pain.

I got over that, and now have many close friends that I can’t imagine not having in my life. I got over having to block my heart from anyone, as I am now in charge of my own life, not my parents. I remember leafing through my mom’s high school yearbook and seeing how many wonderful things her friends had written about her. I can’t blame my parents from having to move so often, and I can’t really blame anyone for the fact that I learned to block people out. I just don’t miss anyone, though perhaps that would change if I could find my high school yearbook. It doesn’t matter though, as I have a full life now, and I know that though some think that life began and ended in high school, but I don’t. Life is good now. How do we get a yearbook for that?

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