The 2016 Reunion

[H2O Man]

13. Interesting.

Thank you.

I was recently talking to my old high school principal; he went on to teach at an outstanding university, helping to prepare teachers, principals, and superintendents for their careers. We are friends now, although we were not at the time I was in school. I sometimes tell him that he has grown a lot, since the days that I used to try to gently encourage him to stay away -- way away -- from me. (grin) He assures me, and I quote, that he "hated (my) guts," and that I am the only person he was ever afraid of.

Some of the kids we knew as classmates have never really changed; others have. It's curious: I skipped school, and was suspended, a heck of a lot. My grades were high, but I was one of out-of-control kids in my class.

A while back, I thought of writing a play of sorts, with the 17-year old H2O Maniac, interacting with the older version of me, in my prime as a social worker.