Bloggerstock: Before there were blogs

Firstly happy Memorial Day everyone.  This marks our one year of Bloggerstocking!  Thanks to everyone especially Alex for keeping it going.  Let make it to another year.  Alright down to business.  This month topic is called "Befere there were blogs".  Our job is to find a journal entry or diary that you would like to share with the world.  Then give your current perspective on that entry.  Ruth of http://ruthajones.com/ will be hosting my bloggerstock post.  This month, I'm honored to be hosting Alex from icewolf08.com 

So, given the theme of this month’s Bloggerstock post I sat down and started to read through some of the things that I have written in some of my old paper journals.  I loved to write (still do), and boy did I write some interesting things.  Sure, high school was an interesting time, I am sure it was for all of us.  One of the interesting things was just remembering some of the situations and things that I wrote about, or not remembering them at all.

There were also plenty of things that I am not sure that I would want to share.  Not because they embarrass me in particular, but because I feel like I sound like an idiot.  Not that I don’t say stupid things that make me sound like an idiot today, but really.  For that matter there is some stuff in there that borders on porn, but I suppose that is what comes of the teenage male mind.  Go figure.

Of course there were fun things to find, like the $2 bill that fell out of one of my books.  I knew I had one somewhere, now I know where!  I was (and still am) a pen whore.  If you go through my journals, I wrote with so many different and crazy pens.  Colors, styles and all.  All the writing made me have pretty decent handwriting though.

So here is the entry I picked.  By all accounts I suppose it is kind of tame, but I thought it was interesting.

So here is an incident that I just found interesting, a note in the street with my name on it.  How can anyone really resist that temptation?  Could I really have manipulated these two people, one a friend of mine and someone I didn’t really know?  In high school, I suppose I probably could have.  It might have been interesting.  I suppose if I knew them both it may have even been fun to do.

What would I have written if this happened to me today?  Well, the real lynch-pin would be who the letter was to/from.  I mean if it was people who I knew well and thought could handle some fun or could use a “nudge” in the right direction I might try to help out.  I have had a couple friends who have come to me for relationship help.  I mean I must be doing something right if I am going to get married in August.  So, who knows, maybe I could make two people into a happy couple.  On the other hand, at this point in life, I would think that most of my friends would know when they are being played with.

So, there it is, an interesting look into my journals.  Possibly not the most exciting or juicy entry, but a good one I think.  Certainly a fun trip down memory lane.