Alright, let's squash this now. I enjoy sports. I enjoy watching and playing baseball. I watch football and get angry when my team doesn't play well. I have been known to enjoy a round of golf from time to time and even though I am morally opposed to gun ownership I do like shooting them. I am also a self proclaimed nerd boy. I have a comic book collection and a huge library of anime and movies in my spare bedroom. I'm a little addicted to stand up comedy and nothing makes me quite as happy as singing my lungs out to a Katy Perry song.
I feel like I should fit inside a box but I don't. I wouldn't mind being pin-holed but I can't really see myself ever really falling into one category that really says who I am. I mean back in high school it seemed like people were easily put into groups. We have the jocks, the band kids, the christian group, the preps that were not jocks, and then everyone else who didn't really fit into a group. I managed to drift around all of these groups without having to really say "I belong". I ran track and loved music so I took choir throughout my high school years and we were kind of lumped into the band grouping even though we were not quite as weird. I had preppy and jock friends that carried almost invisible ties from our elementary and middle school years. It just seemed easier to not only fall into a group but judge others by the group they were in.
Now that I am an adult you see a lot less groups out in the big wild world. Of course they still exist but they are less likely to appear in public. Sure in a sports bar on a Monday night you can still find the jocks. On Sunday's all over the country you can find those christian kids that still believe huddled together praying. Some of the band people went on to play in local dive bars and still talk about how cool high school was. The preppy kids all went to college out of state on their parents dime and now live back at home because they all got degree's in philosophy and are now looking into the local community or tech college to get a "real" working degree.
As I roam this world I still see them when the groups collect and I wonder how I am viewed to them. Am I still that kid that could fit into any group even with my 5 inch liberty spikes? Does my blue hair exclude me from the jockdom that I am still part of when I stream the Ram's games in my living room while wearing my almost 10 year old Kurt Warner jersey? I guess now that my then year high school reunion is looming around the corner I will be able to see if my observations are correct. I loath the idea of catching up with people I didn't really like when I went to high school but I can't deny that I want to see where everyone ended up, how many kids they have, if anyone died, and if I still feel the same way I did back then.
Will I forever be the boy who doesn't fit inside box? I guess
I feel like I should fit inside a box but I don't. I wouldn't mind being pin-holed but I can't really see myself ever really falling into one category that really says who I am. I mean back in high school it seemed like people were easily put into groups. We have the jocks, the band kids, the christian group, the preps that were not jocks, and then everyone else who didn't really fit into a group. I managed to drift around all of these groups without having to really say "I belong". I ran track and loved music so I took choir throughout my high school years and we were kind of lumped into the band grouping even though we were not quite as weird. I had preppy and jock friends that carried almost invisible ties from our elementary and middle school years. It just seemed easier to not only fall into a group but judge others by the group they were in.
Now that I am an adult you see a lot less groups out in the big wild world. Of course they still exist but they are less likely to appear in public. Sure in a sports bar on a Monday night you can still find the jocks. On Sunday's all over the country you can find those christian kids that still believe huddled together praying. Some of the band people went on to play in local dive bars and still talk about how cool high school was. The preppy kids all went to college out of state on their parents dime and now live back at home because they all got degree's in philosophy and are now looking into the local community or tech college to get a "real" working degree.
As I roam this world I still see them when the groups collect and I wonder how I am viewed to them. Am I still that kid that could fit into any group even with my 5 inch liberty spikes? Does my blue hair exclude me from the jockdom that I am still part of when I stream the Ram's games in my living room while wearing my almost 10 year old Kurt Warner jersey? I guess now that my then year high school reunion is looming around the corner I will be able to see if my observations are correct. I loath the idea of catching up with people I didn't really like when I went to high school but I can't deny that I want to see where everyone ended up, how many kids they have, if anyone died, and if I still feel the same way I did back then.
Will I forever be the boy who doesn't fit inside box? I guess