Robert Redford once said, “Never revisit the past, that’s dangerous. You know, move on.”
Redford was right, it is dangerous. It brings upon us an overwhelming myriad of emotions. It shows us that we truly are lonely, that we really don’t have that many friends. Going back to high school, and so soon after graduating, really makes you think. You get hit on by some creep that you had a class with ONE semester, you talk to teachers awkwardly because, let’s be honest here, you were never that close with them, you realize that the people you did hang out with in high school weren’t really friends, just people there because you had similar interests. It’s DEPRESSING!
The life you once held on to so dearly is gone. You don’t talk to your “best friend from high school” except maybe once a month, or when you awkwardly run into each other at the mall (has yet to happen, crossing my fingers it doesn’t!) or in my case, you awkwardly run into each other at your alma mater’s school plays. I ran into so many people at the last play, talk about awko-taco.
This whole “I can always come back” mindset, is partially false. Yes, I can always go back to my school, remember my roots, and all that philosophical crap, but it won’t be the way it was. People change. Things change.
We go through life thinking about the past, but maybe we should just move on. Redford said to, so it must be a good idea. We dwell on the past. I find myself day after day thinking about how much more fun high school was. How I long for what I had. How I strive for things to be different.We, as young adults, should accept the changes. Those changes mold us. They make us better people than we were, say, 5 months ago.
Having lunch with one of my best friends yesterday was really comforting. I hope she won’t get mad at me for saying this, but I’m glad that I am not the only one who is having the emotions I am going through.
Although we can’t go back to our past, we can reminisce our past with the people that matter most. With those that we are still really close with. Those are the people we should go back to. The people we can go back to.
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