Sunday, September 23, 2007

Long Time No.... Blog??

Soo it's been a while since I posted - almost a week! Anyway, I'm sorry. It seems like it's been longer than that; I've been so busy!! Anyway, I went down to this camp last Wedenesday to Friday where I was a counselor for my school's Freshman Trip. It was okay. There were definatley ups and downs. It was hilarious to see how immature Freshman are. These last two years really have made a huge difference in my grade's maturity level. It's amazing. You just experience so much in those years, .and it makes you a completely different person. I was on waterfront, which meant that I had about 7 hours to myself in a kayak every day of the trip, while I lifeguarded, and with not much else to do, I thought. I started thinking back to when I was a Freshman, and it's amazing. I hung out with different people, I was totally superficial, I judged before I got to know them (Now I make a conscious effort not to), and I didn't hang out with people if I thought they were "Gothic," "Nerdy," or fit into any steriotype other than the preppy one that I filled myself. Looking back, I'm ashamed and shocked at how I used to act. I judged people based on what my friends thought of them - not what I thought of them, and that horrifies me. It was good for me to go on Freshman Trip. Not only because it looks good on my college resume and I got to miss two days of school, but because it was good for me to look back on the changes that I've been through during high school. I hadn't really thought about it much until now, but I'm just amazed. It also makes me wonder who I will be when I graduate, during college, and even farther into the future. If I've changed this much in two years, who knows where I'll be in three.

2 comments:

Ammietia (a girl you once knew) said...

So many things can change in so little time, sometimes for the worse but a lot for the better. It just depends on how we look at it. Even the bad changes have some good in them, I know if I changed some of my bad decisions I could have turned out as a stereo-typical 'slut' for lack of better words.

affirmedreality said...

hee hee, I haven't posted in what, 2, 3 weeks? Anyway I used to have the same sterotype, only the opposite. My friends and I didn't hang out with people we thought were "preppy". But now I went to camp, and I met a few "preps" and my view on things changed. ^_^