I miss having easy classes from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm...
I miss me and my friends wanting to form a band...
I miss Bunny Factory...
I miss making movies with Kyle, Spencer, Nathan, Kenton, Garrett, Ben, and others...
I miss the Fall Festival and Pig Days...
I miss Sicsam...
I miss Berg's basement...
I miss playing Phantasy Star Online with Kyle...
I miss watching Kyle play video games all day (Amplitude, Sonic Adventure, etc.)...
I miss riding my scooter...
I miss band, pep band, marching band, and everyone involved...
I miss sitting with the band in the bleachers during football games...
I miss Mr. Norris...
I miss theater and acting in plays...
I miss all of the cast parties...
I miss old East School...
I miss Giovanni's Pizza...
I miss paper football...
I miss Halo nights and the huge number of people that came to the Frere house...
I miss the Halo Force and our Sunday trips to Springfield to do battle...
I miss walking to Jiffi Stop for snacks late at night...
I miss walking around Pittsfield in general...
I miss swimming in Spencer's pool on warm summer nights...
I miss wiffle ball and the Rhode Island Spectres...
I miss the nights we would play board games like Risk and Star Wars Monopoly...
I miss renting weird fucking movies with Adam Stinson...
I miss sleepovers at Nathan's house...
I miss Ryan Lawber pretending to be Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid...
I miss walking the bike path from PCS to home after school...
I miss watching Dragon Ball Z...
I miss the "friends within yelling distance" club (Kyle, Ben, Spencer, Derrick)...
I miss old County Market...
I miss going to Myerz's place to watch WWE pay per views...
I miss the sleepovers at Garrett's house, including Fort sleepovers...
I miss playing Scene It! at Garrett's...
I miss going ghost hunting...
I miss hanging out at Sammy Suds with Berg...
I miss having chocolate milk with Spencer and Braxton...
I miss all of the old GeoCities websites we used to make...
I miss taking weird pictures with Kyle's digital camera...
I miss trips to Jacksonville to go see a movie and going to Hastings...
I miss thinking that the Best Buy in Springfield was awesome...
I miss Spencer Heaton's puberty screeches...
I miss playing Animal Crossing and fucking up Nathan's town...
I miss the random sounds and voices Ronin/New Friend Evan would make...
I miss cheese stick nights at Pizza Hut...
I miss listening to backmasked songs (Ohhhh here's to my sweet satan)...
I miss the past...I fear the future...I carry on............
I'm back :)
10 comments:
Is it weird that I can remember what I got for lunch my first day of high school? I got a Hostess Strawberry Shortcake and a chocolate milk. Why can I specifically remember that one unimportant detail?
Feel free to list all of the things that you miss from your past. I'm curious to read them.
I'm glad you wrote this so I wouldn't have to. You nailed it.
In a few years I'll probably have to write a list for these last four years of my life.
-Kyle
This brings back some memories; I'm going to take this opportunity to apologize for throwing a cup of pens at you, Derrick.
No Kenton, it is I who should apologize. I threw the cup of pens on you for a prank. We had that tiny bookmark-sized camcorder that Kyle ordered. And I walked into the room and threw them on you and you got pissed and did it back. I deserved it. Haha
I miss knowing where to find all my friends without using a phone.
Excellent, Derrick. Several of these hit me right in the Giovanni's-shaped hole in my heart. I've been meaning to stay in better touch, and it gets harder and never easier, it seems.
It seems like this friend group is much more nostalgic than other groups of people from PHS. Is it because our lives in high school were just really awesome, or that we just have an unusually strong appreciation for our own history?
Theories, anyone?
I've often thought about this too. Most people I meet say they hated high school and were very anxious to get out. I enjoyed high school a lot and I knew life was only going to get harder once I left.
I know that I can say 8th grade to Senior year were the best years of my life so far. And even though I've made some really awesome friends since I've been to college, my Pittsfield friends are one of a kind.
I think most people miss their youth and miss their friends. But I don't know if a lot of people appreciate all of the specific aspects of that period. As I've stated before, Friend Group is a very large network of people. I think we were lucky to get along with and hang out with so many people at a younger age.
I miss driving to lunch in our crap cars. I'll make sure my son's first car will be just as crappy (not one of those new-fangled crank cars of the future) so he can share in the experience.
i miss staying in touch with people and feeling like i have friends. i miss my friends giving me the chance to be there for them anytime.
braxton, i don't know if we had a particularly better time than others did in high school. maybe, as derrick said, our feelings draw from the fact that we still value those friendships today-- they weren't a fluke. but i think the nostalgia might also come from the fact that a lot of the people w/o such nostalgia are still around pittsfield doing similar stuff as before, so they haven't been away to appreciate it.
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