My name is Jacqueline - I'm a socially moderate, religiously conservative, and politically liberal girl just loving life right now! I'm a 24 year old Master's of Media Studies student at the University of Texas, but an Oklahoma alumni and die-hard Sooner fan! I'm currently writing my thesis - in a nutshell my research is about girls' online lives, particularly informal learning environments. I'm also an English & Language Arts teacher for a local Home School Co-op. When I'm not researching for my thesis or writing lesson plans - I'm usually watching college football! Oh yea, and I'm training to run a half marathon with Teams in Training this winter, I'm pumped!
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Monday, April 18, 2005
From days of old and long ago
Friendships are weird, the life cycle of a friendship is so unpredictable. It seems lately all these people from my past are coming back. Not necessarily back into my life, but contact is being made.
When my mom was up last weekend she was asking me whatever happened to my best friend from the second grade, Kasey Key? Kasey and I were pretty much attached at the hip, she was my first "get into trouble" sorta friend and we did everything together. After the 4th grade she moved to a different school and we pretty much lost touch. I heard through the grapevine that she graduated from The Colony, but that was all I knew.
Well - I found her on facebook the other day and we emailed each other a few times, and it was so great to hear from her. Gah, I loved that girl so much!
Then, last night I checked my email and I had an email from a wonderful long time friend Laura Burmeister. She and I were very good friends in jr. high and then she left our school. She and I stayed in touch on and off through most of high school, but really haven't talked at all in college. It was so nice to hear from her.
You know those friends from preschool that you have vague memories of and you think, "Gee would they even remember me.?" Yes, they probably do. At a new year's eve party in Dallas of freshmen year (college) I ran into a girl I went to preschool with. She and I hadn't so much as thought of each other in 15 years, but we remembered one another and our mutual friends.
Life is crazy and so unpredictable. I think back to high school graduation and all the wonderful friends I had, and it's so weird the ones I've stayed in touch with. I've sadly lost contact with some of my then good friends. But some of the people who weren't that great of a friend are now some of my greatest friends, who I never thought I would stay in touch with (the PHBC group!)
Seriously, no matter how much work goes or doesn't go into a frienship, it almost seems as though there is some external force deciding who will stay in your life and who won't. And it makes life so much more interesting.
I grieve for the friends I have lost sometimes, but ya know, I don't think you ever really lose a friend. Even if time goes by, those memories remain and I will always love my childhood friends, even if I never see them again.
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