Last night I noticed a friend of mine I have not seen since she graduated more than a year ago, and I was blown away by how much different she was. A year ago, she was an intellectual giant of a senior possessing a talent for sculpting words I still hope to some day come close to. I must've read her 500 word essay on herself at least that many times, but she wasn't even very attractive to me. She also just plain seemed huge- maybe because I never saw her from anything closer than a yard or so, I was the aloof but (maybe) mature boy of the theatre troupe. Last night, though, I talked to her and I could not take my eyes off her; I must not have blinked for ten straight minutes. Everything she said, too, was so interesting sounding. Then she said goodbye, and she seemed sad. She left for Utah again today- that's where she goes to college and that's where her family grew up surrounded by the Mormon life style . The point of this post is just to marvel at how it is someone can so completely change in one's perspective in so little time. It's just so weird, and I'm a little sad I'll most likely never talk to her again. I'm a little disappointed too that I still can't talk to an outstanding member of the opposite sex, or even a lot of members of my own, without still feeling immature, stupid, or generally morally and intellectually lesser. I will say this, though: I won't forgot that curly red hair for a long time.
