What a weird year?!
Everything is different I don't know what I would do if I was a
graduating senior this year. Actually, yes I do, I would go with the
flow that's what you do when you're in high school even in college
end up going with the flow more often than not. Interestingly however
I have noticed a meme develop in the Facebook arena which is
everybody is posting their yearbook graduation images. This is cool
if you have such an image. Oddly I don't. High school was so bizarre
for me (I've written a number of posts about the fact that high
school that I graduated from was actually the crosstown rival from
the school are supposed to graduate from but could not because of the
major architectural barriers to a student in a wheelchair). The the
bizarreness gets even more strange when one considers the fact that I
did not I was not able to graduate with my class because of being
held back a year for the time I was in rehabilitation following my
accident.
I cannot remember how much
the cost of the 1970 yearbook was to the students I think it was
something like $15 or something 1970 dollars. I'd gotten to know the
students I went to school with of course and I wanted a yearbook and
I got one. Sadly like so many other events of my life of which I
majorly participated in I did not get visual recognition. I think I
still have that yearbook somewhere in my library but I haven't been
able to put my hands on it this year. It's my fifty-year anniversary
of my graduation from good old Borah high school. Where high was a
big school I think I graduating class was something like 1200
students it was a long commencement. At the time I didn't really
think a lot about what was going on. Since I really didn't live in
the school district I didn't go to a lot of the end of the year
functions. I did go to junior senior prom, and some of those kind of
things. But overall I just kind of quietly slipped out of view. I'm
currently sifting through all the images I have in my photo
journals/albums and chaotic mess and I know I have some cap and gown
images that outpost one of these first days maybe not hear it on
Facebook. It's kind of sad though even though I graduated from high
school I didn't really want to I'm glad that I did and actually I do
have a warm spot in my heart for high school and Borah high
specifically. I actually thought about going online and purchasing a
yearbook and I was amazed to see yearbooks going from (1970 Safari)
$75-$200. I guess it's a scalpers market for people who desperately
want to capture their yearbooks. Also through my library again and
see if somewhere my yearbooks been misplaced and then find some quiet
time and wander through the pages of the year I was there but
somewhat invisible…
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