Twenty-Seven Years ???

I was going through boxes of stuff the other day looking for some paper work and came across my senior picture as I have many times before. This time it was so strange looking at me or is it her. I stopped and was trying to remember what my hopes and dreams were back then. While in high school I took every business class I could and found them interesting. I got pregnant soon after graduation and things became different then what I had planned. I wonder where I would be now if I had followed through with going into a business office. I know that I couldn't have gotten married to my ex-husband (Jon) or if I had, it wouldn't have ended much earlier.

At the time that this picture was taken, I was going with a guy that was three years older then me. He was a drummer, working at the cement plant and going to college. I was still a virgin (in the since that he had never interred me). I broke up with him just before Christmas. A few months later he was asking me to go back to him and telling me that he would raise the baby as his own and not to tell the real father about the pregnancy being his. My life would have gone closer to the plan then. This man encouraged me to do what I dreamed. Hmm... I broke up with him because he never worried about where I was and what I was doing, he knew I was his. I thought that meant that he didn't care.

Twenty seven years later... Comparing these two pictures, not just visually but mentally. Now, I'm back in school and I'm looking for a man that doesn't worry about where I am because he knows I'm his. Good god, I took the long way around on that one.