Dear 15-year-old self,
You’re a skinny, pasty, awkward freshman in high school.
Every day you wake up at 5:30 to shower and try to tame your unruly mane (this
was before flat irons were so easily accessible). Sadly, it doesn’t help. You spend much of the
year looking like you just rolled out of bed.
You lug your viola to and from school every other day (we
had a block schedule) and people laugh at the skinny little “orch dork.” Let’s
face it…you are. You don’t mess with drugs or alcohol, and sex isn’t even an
option because no guy even looks at you. All in all, you’re a good kid. But
boy, that mouth you have! Talking back to your parents gets you in trouble
every. single. week. Just keep it shut
and complain on your Xanga (cgkat87 for those of you that want some reading
pleasure).
You continue your friendship with that tall half Japanese
girl you started last year. She will become your best friend. Surprisingly, you
guys will NEVER fight. About anything. At all. When you’re both 24, you’ll be
her maid of honor at her wedding to her high school sweetheart, and you’ll cry
like a baby. Allison is the peanut butter to your jelly, and you two will go
through a LOT together.
That guy that always stares at Allison and tries to flirt
with her? He’ll become your other best friend, like your older brother. Sadly
you fall in love with him when you’re in college and he’s in the Navy, and your
friendship ends on an awkward note. You miss him every day, but he’s happily
married now.
Besides you and Allison, there are two others in your little
group of friends. Jessica is your new neighbor, and is the most happy-go-lucky
person you’ll ever meet. She moves to Chicago after college and aside from a
few chance encounters, you don’t hear from her. Christina you’ve known since
elementary school. You’ve always been wary of her since first grade and she
wouldn’t let you on the tunnel slide…but you let the past be the past and try
to be her friend. DON’T. That witch makes your high school career hell every
time she gets “mad” at you for something. Senior year you finally stand up to
her and when she decides she’s done being mad at you “that time,” you don’t
accept her apology. You still think about her time to time, and wonder if she
still cheats on her fiancé on the reg.
Speaking of fiancé, you know that awkward boy that’s friends
with Alex? He’ll become your fiancé one day. Sadly, things don’t work out and
you hightail it out of that relationship, but not before learning some of the
most important lessons of your life, and growing up along the way.
Your 15th year of life will be filled with
homework and tests, movies and shopping, times with friends, family spats,
friend spats (85% with Christina), trials and hardships, and triumphs and joy.
You hate it when you live it, but I bet you have no clue how much you want to
go back to that year a decade later.
Love,
Your 25-year-old self
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