Time sure flies, doesn’t it?  It’s hard for me to believe that 20 years have gone by since I graduated high school.  I’ve mentioned before that I graduated from the thriving metropolis (if you use the word metropolis in the loosest way possible) of Wellston, OK in 1994.  I moved to Wellston before I went into the fourth grade.

It was an odd adjustment for me.  I had previously gone to school in a much larger school district and the class structure was quite a bit different.  Of course, like any new kid at a school, I knew no one and had no friends.  I don’t know what it was that brought us together, but I soon became friends with a kid named James, and we were pretty much best buds from then on out.

We were a small class.  I can’t find my senior yearbook at the moment, but I think my graduating class was around 36 kids.  My wife finds it hard to imagine what my high school experience was like.  She graduated with a group of over 450.  The thought of a school with that many people freaks me out a bit.  Since we were such a small class, and a small school, everyone knew everyone else.  Just about everyone got along with each other, even if we did really hang out.  I pretty much always struggled with trying to fit in or dealing with the fact that I felt like I didn’t fit in.  I never really felt like I wasn’t liked, just that I was an odd ball.

I wasn’t athletic at all.  Hanging out around the jocks was really not fun for me.  If I was going to get picked on by a group, it was them.  The band geeks were nice, but I wasn’t in the high school band, so I didn’t really hang out with them much either.  I don’t really know why, but I was never interested in the party scene.  In a small town, that’s pretty much all there is to do on a Friday or Saturday night.  So, as I said, I just felt out of place.  I was a geek, but that was before geeks were cool.  Geeks are cool now, right? Read More...

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