Its weird. Weirder now that ever. Old friends from high school are friending me on facebook. Now I have nothing wrong with that. The weird thing is that I've been kept at a mentally younger age than most of my high school counterparts by going to college for a freaking long time. It also helps that I dress like a college kid and do mostly those sort of activities. I could still probably pass for early twenties easily. We had these ideas about the future when we were in high school. About who we wanted to be and how we saw the world. And each of our visions were molded by our parents and the town we grew up in. And the way it was then isn't the way it is now although the people are still exactly the same.
Teenagers today struggle with the same things I did when I was a teen. And I remember that. My teen experience was quite unusual. I lived in a bubble of innocence that I was unaware of and I have now emerged from without bursting. Not many escape the small town christian midwest upbringing and survive college without either their purity bubble bursting and them throwing away every thing they once held close for something more "intellectual," "politically correct," or "liberating." Either that or they totally wrapping themselves in insubstantial religious/bland/middle class/american dream and perpetuate the lie that is killing Faith and the USA
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