Last night at nine fifteen, I picked up my friend Craig from his house, like we used to do in high school, and drove to that very same high school. Of course, it was very dark, which was exactly what we wanted. It was Craig’s last day in town, and we were determined to make it count.
The intent of the excursion was to film for our introduction to our collab channel, but it turned into us making fools of ourselves around our old high school in the dark with a flashlight and two cameras. It was where we’d become friends, and where we’d spent an awful lot of time, so it seemed like a good place to be.
The school was eerily lighted, and if you looked closely enough, you could make out the outlines of rows of desks inside classrooms. Some of the hallways were lit enough to see old lockers and bathroom entrances. The courtyard, whose gate was suspiciously open, was also illuminated by lights framing the many doors.
It was an eerie experience, being back there at that time of night, but it did make me a little nostalgic. The majority of those people I spent the last four years with? I’ll probably never see them again. And it’s not like it’s a loss -at ALL- but it’s still a little weird. Everything is changing. People are moving on.
Today as I write this post, two of my three best friends have skipped town. Bart is in California again, doing some secondary boot camp or something. He’s allowed internet and phone access this time, which is comforting. Craig is on his way to South Carolina to visit his grandparents before driving to New Orleans to drop off his older sister at college, before finally making it to Texas, where he will be spending the last four years.
I leave a few days earlier than Rachel, and even that is coming up soon. And I was thinking, as Craig and I sat in his driveway for two hours just talking, that I really do have quite a few people to say goodbye too.
The thing is, though, I didn’t expect to be saying goodbye to many of these people and I am surprised that I’m not saying goodbye to many more. It’s a strange world we live in.
Here’s the first video, which I edited from a half hour of footage from last night, for Craig and I’s college collab channel.
Oh and I also really liked this post.
The way I look at it is, don’t say goodbye. just say, “See you later”