I was recently wondering if the memories I have of myself in high school, are really as accurate as I think them to be. I mean, I talk to people from my past that remember events in such a different way than I do. I may feel like something was not such a huge dramatic event, that someone else found to be life-changing or vice-versa. I know it all relates to your particular experience.. in fact Chad Vita just wrote a great post about perception over at his blog - Multiverse - that he titled "Communication of Perceptions". It's all about how you perceive a situation, and how another may perceive the same situation, based on the events that may have happened to either of those individuals, individually - within their own lives. Basically, saying - that you and I both could have eaten the same meal - or seen the same movie - even together - but the events prior that occurred to either of us separately.. would influence how we each felt about the food, or film.

So what about High School? I remember it as being a tough time, socially.. even for the coolest kids - there were always things like puberty, and cliques and who was the best at what kind of thing.. I mean all of that happened to everyone no matter how cool you thought you were. What about the things like your first kiss, or the first time you stayed out all night - or had a drink, or smoke with your friends?

Personally, I had 2 complete different groups of friends.. as I saw it anyway. The intelligent surfer, skater, chill crowd that hung out together in their VW van's and went surfing and had bonfires and parties at their parents houses on the weekends.. and the theater group I belonged to. The smart, witty, theatrical, and personality driven crowd that got into thinking situations and had fun by getting together and being extremely ridiculously silly to one another and letting go of all the silly social boundaries.

I had a great time. I had a lot of friends and a lot of people that called me 'friend'... and many of them seemed to exist in different worlds. Now though, looking at things like Facebook and Myspace, and Twitter and all these social applications where people have found me and one another, once again.. I see who they are in contact with.. from our pasts - and I see that maybe the boundaries between my groups weren't as cut and dry as I thought they were. Or maybe we have all grown out of the differences we thought we had back then.. what were they again? I dunno - "Communication of Perceptions" ... well put Chad. What do you think gang? Let me know. Just a thought.. Until then.. see you on the next post!