One of the things that recently came up in my head that I decided to look further into thanks to technology and crazy science fiction come to life, otherwise known as Google and its associated products like Maps. I found a pattern here that I really wanted to share.
When I lived in the US, one of the things I disliked the most about it was waking up every morning and having to bare another day of school. My school like was tough. Stabbed for being white during the LA riots (at the age of 13). Bashed until I couldn't move, and then my bus fair taken from me along with my bag and school work.
I wasn't exactly picked on all the time, but I had my share. This mainly happened in what US-folk call Junior high. We have no such thing here in Australia.
Well, while reading a very interesting story about someone who had experienced a great deal of suffering in school I related and this is where the "I wonder" part came to be.
I wondered if the school I went to still existed. I wondered if the place I lived in still stood. I don't remember anything I see currently on Google maps look like what I saw just now. However, I could still navigate my way around my US based home town.
Upon further reading and viewing I discovered that each and every school I've been to that was a nightmare to attend has a highly prized school today.
This doesn't just go towards the schools I went to in the US, but also the schools I went to here in Australia.
In fact, the mutual feeling of crap education has completely dissipated and when I read a blog about some current member of the schools I went to, or I stumble upon a website that rates schools, or a review some teacher wrote about their experiences. It's all a good thing, in total contrast to what I myself and a whole lot of other friends I had at the time experienced.
Was my timing off? Should I have started school a couple of years earlier or later? Would I have still been stabbed or bashed until I can't remember? Would I have still felt the same stomach churning feeling of gagging every time school was mentioned?
I'm not sure.
However, I can say, if I went back to those schools now, according to the reports I'm reading, I would love it.
The junior high I went to is now a big player in sport and even better for me if I still went there, a major part of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories). I remember once having the opportunity to visit the place and spend all day with a guy who worked there.
I was so enthralled by what I saw, full blown satellites they sent into space, real scientists. I wanted to live there.
However, I moved away and forgot about all that, taking on other interests which has led me here.
What I wonder about after seeing this is, could it have been different?
I don't want to ponder on that thought for too long, because I hate "what ifs". But, what if?
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I broke down and called a guy to take bass lessons from. Im gonna commit and I'll be playing with some fellas eventually.
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