i still think it’s a miracle that i have friends from high school
because i kind of truly hated most of it. seriously, those first three years were spent in agony. i wasn’t smart enough. i wasn’t korean enough. i wasn’t cute enough. on top of not being all those things, i wasn’t even clever. and i didn’t know how to cuss nor did i drink or smoke. in short, i was just average, which is about the worst thing to be when you’re a teenager.
but i finally started coming into my own senior year. much of that was due to the realization that just because i went to school with a lot of korean kids, i did not need to be friends with any or all of them. my social life might have been made a whole lot more enjoyable if i had just realized this freshman year, but i’m a slow learner.
to look at the silver lining, i had dinner with two very dear friends tonight to celebrate a birthday. we’ve been friends for 12 years, and it’s been a wonderful, fun and sometimes wild ride. i love that we have practically nothing in common with each other but have no shortage of things to opine about. that’s the beauty of friendship, isn’t it?
