Posted by Shes_InItForTheMoney on February 28, 2012, at 14:10:00
In reply to No, posted by Dinah on February 27, 2012, at 7:52:43
> It was the first kiss for both of us.
> We never really talked about it afterward.
> But I think about the events of that day
> again and again,
> and somehow I know that Winnie does too,
> whenever some blowhard starts talking about
> the anonymity of the suburbs
> or the mindlessness of the TV generation,
> because we know
> that inside each one of those identical boxes,
> with its Dodge parked out front
> and its white bread on the table
> and its TV set glowing blue in the falling dusk,
> there were people with stories,
> there were families bound together in the pain and
> the struggle of love,
> there where moments that made us cry with laughter,
> and there were moments,
> like that one,
> of sorrow and
> wonder.
>
>
> The Wonder Years
> Episode 1
>Dinah:
I can certainly identify with the innocence of youth, but I guess my social experience was so much different. You know of Stephen Colbert? Well, he talked about his youth years in the same way as I. I never had a 'girlfriend' in highschool, and I was just laughed at as some clumsy, very shy, slightly overweight kid. Yes, I was a 'geek'...as they (we) are called..lol. I had a couple of friends, and we usually spent our weekends playing Dungeons & Dragons, listening to usual 'geek' music...'uncool' music (meaning bands with 25 minute songs in 3 time signatures...early Genesis ,Rush, Jethro tull)... Music that usually sent young girls screaming and running in the opposite direction. We ordered a pizza on Saturday nights while having a game of D & D, and the only kind of drink we ever had was root beer. Michael Moore even used that quote from the song 'Subdivisions' in his (non-political) autobiography, which is pretty good. Not suprising, the author of that song by Rush, 'Subdivisions by Neil Peart, was from my hometown here in Ontario. We even went to the same highschool! (But he is 58...I am in my 40's.)
Now, I am not being sexist, but being a woman, it doesn't surprise me you would have been all turned off by those things us geeks, weird social-misfits and all, did. Durkheim described this as 'anomie', but I didn't realize that until college. None of us had girlfriends until we where in our 20's.
If you ever see that movie "I Love You Man", you actually might understand the whole male growing-up-in-the-80's geek-thing..lol. But I wouldn't change a thing, if I where to do it all over again. (Well, I would have liked to have a girlfriend in highschool...rather than spending my time locked in the bathroom with a Cosmopolitan mag...lol!)
Take care...
Jay"Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic and we'll change the world," ~Jack Layton 1950-2011
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