I've recently come into contact with some old elementary school friends via "Facebook". I've always said that the best friends were in elementary school. Middle School or Junior High was a change in attitude and innocence for many friendships. New people of course led to new relationships and unfortunately a distancing of other relationships. High School was a four year click generating machine. If you still hung out with your elementary buds then I think that was something special. That is if you didn't have to compromise your values, ideals, or morals for them. Let's face it...people change...relationships change...we change.
Elementary school, however, was a different kind of change. The changes that happened in elementary school were more academic or physical than socio or economic. We out-grew shoes and pants and not our "friends". We stood in the lunch line together and talked with each other instead of looking away as if to find something better. Old friends sometimes re-enter our ever changing lives, and we recall familiar relationships. We discover that we all share moments frozen in time...things that stayed the same...things that didn't change...It's been fun reminiscing.
Jesse
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