Random MySpace Encounters

MySpace is just an odd place for random encounters these days.

The tally so far:

• 5 porn stars (sorry, I mean “aspiring” models)
  
• 1 crazy psychopath from the past
  
• 2 people thinking I was someone else
  
• 1 person trying to gain access for blackmail purposes (like there’s anything blackmail-able in my profile)

Add to that: Two people from my 5th grade elementary class who literally found me out of the blue. After talking with each of them a bit, it’s amazing how people turn out after embarking down radically different paths.

Not “wrong” paths or “bad” paths — just different.

One has been married, divorced, had a child and lost the child due to an alleged murder and is now crusading for child rights.

Stranger than that sounds, I’m actually enjoying catching up with people from “the past.” My 5th grade year was my last in public school before my parents started homeschooling me. At my own request.

Suffice to say, there’s not many warm fuzzies from that era.

In talking with them, it’s interesting to note how for many of us the social divides and barriers that once separated us are now utterly meaningless. It’s as if they never even existed. Now, Walnut Elementary school is no longer that place where a lot of things happened, but something we survived and shared together.

So now the question is, seeing as these things happen in threes, who else from the past is going to emerge from the shadows?

July 8th, 2007 in Journal |