I Once Had This Friend...

I Remember A Time

There was a time when I had a completely different outlook on life. If I had chosen to pursue another lifestyle, I would be completely different from the person I am today. But because of the people and events in my life, I am who I am. Continuing on with the actual topic, I was a very different person from kindergarten up to around grade five. Grade five is when I started changing, for the better or worse, I don't know, and probably won't know for a long time.

My mind as a kindergartner was very closed in. I wasn't open much to everything, was afraid to try new things, and always stuck with a group of friends. I didn't really mind about what people thought about me, and I didn't think about what type of person they were. I believe that at that age, people don't really think about that. Anyhow, my life was limited to a few things. I kept myself away from new things. I didn't bother to give anything a second thought.

It's hard to actually say these things, since I only have a few memories of my primary years at Begbie. The memories I do recall however are like a salad. Some you like, some you don't.

I was a very different person a few years back. But naturally that changes as you grow. Reflecting back at my primary grade years, I wonder why I hung out with the people I hung out with. As I started growing up and heading towards my "graduation", I started hanging out with new people, which led to trying new things. Eventually (I'm going to guess around grade six), I figured out that everybody I saw would be worth the while to meet. You never know what will happen.

Grade seven was my favourite year. It's funny, because every year I change my favourite year. Anyhow, in grade seven I think I finally found out what type of people I liked being around and who I didn't. In elementary, there really wasn't anybody to hate. We were a tight knit community, and everybody liked everybody. I really liked that about Begbie, and I've found it's difficult to replicate that in high school, but that's kind of my overall goal, just to get everybody to like everybody.

I started carefully choosing my friends in high school however. Started from the first day. I had bad feelings about some and tried to stay away from them, and others have exceeded my expectations as being a friend.

The reason why I had this whole idea to write about my school life was just because I remembered somebody who I met in kindergarten. I vaguely remember that I was a tad lonely and this person out of all people decided to become my friend. Sure he was a bit irrational (aren't we all at that age?), but at that time I thought he was a great friend. I wonder what about him made me think that. It just makes me so curious.

Short Post

I didn't really want to keep this thought at bay for the next post, so I just decided to create a relatively short post. I hope you enjoyed reading it, as I tried to make it as interesting and non-boring as possible. I've found out that some people other than my Alpha friends still read my blog (surprises me a lot, since this blog has little to offer), and sometimes that's enough just to put me in a really good mood (which I usually try to be in).

My morning has been relatively nice. I had frantic dreams of zombies (although they were amazing and the story would make a great novel) and other things that I cannot recall (I can rarely recall dreams, so it's hard for me to write in my dream journal, which has been an on and off project). I'll have to rate the three or four hours I've been awake an 8.

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius