Awkward at the Party
I recently had a chance to attend a party populated by high school friends. I hadn’t seen them in ten years and it sounded like a great chance to catch up on what everyone else has been doing in the decade that has passed since high school ended. Unfortunately, it ended up being one of those things that just sounded so much better in theory than it panned out in practice.
The thing is that I went to a college prep school where I always felt like every other student was smarter than me. It’s taken me almost ten years to feel confident in my own intelligence and being back with those students threw me right back into that old puddle of low self-esteem.
The very first conversation that I had was with someone who now works for a Tampa website development company. Five minutes into the conversation he was throwing around information about Florida email marketing strategy and Tampa SEO and social networking campaigns and Tampa online bookmarking and basically all of these other things that meant absolutely nothing to me.
After him came all of the lawyers and the doctors. Of course, they’re all married and planning to start families. Needless to say, this is not where I’m at in my life. I love my life. I’m happy. But I didn’t feel that way at the party and I don’t think that I’ll be returning to anything like that again soon.
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