I ran into a friend yesterday from high school and as we
spoke a feeling of sadness come over me. Her mannerisms, voice and tones reeked
of misery, tiredness, and a failed spirit. I realized that this person, who was
so filled with joy and innocence, 10 years ago, had lost that sparkle in her
eyes, and it made me wonder. I started thinking back to high school and all the
people who were so happy go lucky, and who are now sad, bitter, different,
used, lost. It was all so simple then, the song comes to mind. Where does our
innocence go… out the door I suppose with failed relationships, mothers without
fathers, fathers without mothers, cheating, lying, poverty, the reality that
the streets aren’t paved with gold… And it saddened me for I too lost that chipper
spirit, that carefree floating in the meadows feeling. And I wonder, if we can
ever find those fields again, or are we all doomed to paved streets, no green,
no trees in sight.
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