I think in another life, or time, or however the alternative universe system operates, I ended up marrying Daniel Young after secretly kind of camp crushing on him for years. I think we ended up doing outlandish things like tying together a makeshift raft and setting off down the Frio (and sinking after 5 minutes of glorious escape), and we were lazy in that cool sort of way where time doesn't own your life, and he probably smiled that secret smile that was always on the horizon, and we drank way too much chocolate milk for our own good.
I say all this because I ran into a girl who was in my high school sorority my sophomore year (the year of the eyebrows...ergh) in a coffee shop back in TX over Christmas, and she said, "Wow. The last time I saw you your hair was in a ponytail and you were in a scruffy t-shirt...you look great now!" *in a nice way, but still, cringe!* and then continued, "you went to ASU? We all thought you'd gone off somewhere big...you were so smart and stuff..." *who's we? I don't know.*
Sometimes I wonder why things happen the way they do, and how many millions upon millions of things are different now than they could have been if only...and I wonder sometimes if most of it is for the best or if we tend to screw things up more than we should and just don't realize the gravity of our decisions because the results aren't noticably drastic. Don't get me wrong, I liked ASU and I'm pretty sure Daniel Young would freak out (in Daniel's way, which would probably be a mild, 'whoah' with raised eyebrows or something) if he read this blog. But the bottom line is, I still wonder sometimes.
And now, bed.
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