I really did this to myself so that is why it sucks even more. I went to my High School reunion last year, I have been out of High School long enough that my life should be far advanced from where it is. I graduated from a private school with a small class of only 21 students. In our Senior year we were all very close but after graduation went our separate ways. Everybody showed up for this reunion. All of them had higher educations, careers, homes and families. They all brought their wives and children and talked about their careers and then there I was. What can I say? I have no kids, no significant other, I still live at home and I wash dishes in the same restaurant I worked at after graduating High School. I make a whopping 9 dollars and hour after all those years. I somehow let it slip that I work at a restaurant so I had to lie and say I was the manager. If they came to the restaurant I'm sure they know that is a lie. I wouldn't know if they came because I am always in the back washing dishes. To make matters worse after 2 grueling hours of trying to act happy and avoid talking about kids, family and career I walked out to my unreliable car that I parked around the corner. The darn thing wouldn't start and it began to rain. My old High School buddy saw me next to my pile of scrap metal on wheels and offered me a ride in his Volvo XC60. I had to sit in the back with his two boys. One of the boys grilled me with the questions I tried to avoid the whole night. "Where are your kids? Where is your wife?" What was I supposed to say that I spent more time playing video games and watching TV than trying to make a life for myself. When we got to "my" house my mother greets me as I get out of the car scolding me about not taking out the trash. All my classmates have been around the world and have moved to various places and I have barely been off of my block. If all that wasn't bad enough, the next day when I went to get my car there was a parking ticket on it and rain had leaked through the broken sunroof that I had tried to seal with tape. The other day I got an invitation to come to my friend's house for his son's birthday party. I don't think so, I don't need more reminders of how he is living the good life while I am at home with my parents getting scolded like a teenager. | |
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