For sometime now I have had this on my mind, so here goes...
My daughter is now going into the 5th grade, so of course I am thinking back to my elementary school years. Am I the only one that felt out of place? Seemed like I couldn't fit in with anyone except for a few! Marissa thankfully is popular and is everyones' friend. I really would hate my own daughter having to go through that! To this day I can remember some really wonderful people I had a friends, and one in particular I hadn't talked to in 16 years and shot her wedding a couple years ago, and its like we never lost touch!
We moved a lot to me as growing up. I spent my elementary years in Roanoke, then middle school - and first year of high school in Lebanon, and then once again moved to Stuarts Draft, VA. With all of the schools I attended I never felt like part of it. Maybe it was my name, do you really know how many songs can be made up with Libbie in it? Maybe that's why I went by Elizabeth for the remaining time I was in school. Today I am very proud to be called Libbie, and if I had to go back I would have had everyone call me Libbie from day 1. Now looking back I wonder why in the world I wanted to be part of "certain" groups, and couldn't just be myself... I am proud of the person I have grown into being. I have reunited with various friends over facebook, myspace, and classmates.com. Some of which have become close again.
After all these years, of course you forgive and forget. - but wonder where those people who secretly hurt your feelings ended up. Personally, I am very happy how my life turned out. For one I am a happily married, to a wonderful man - (which I thought I would never get married or have kids). I am so very blessed to have two great kids! (they can be wild, but hey). Somehow I found the career that makes me proud and happy! One of my largest accomplishments is working with the Ms Wheelchair Virginia Organization! Those women make me want to be even of a better person! I for one have learned so much from them, and will be part of the organization for life. - It's wonderful to work with so many different clients, which of some I have made wonderful life long friends.
I would love to go back and make some different decisions, however if I did, then would I have my husband, or my children? Where would I have ended up? I just hope I am not the only person who felt like they were "out of place" growing up! To those people who made fun on me growing up, they only made me a stronger person and I thank them for that! For those people who let me be part of something thank you as well. I will never forget, a birthday party I had in Roanoke with friends, Lebanon going to football games with Amanda or Jessica, Stuarts Draft - going to football games with Amy - cruising Greenville Ave. Going to sock hops, and of course proms. I didn't make the senior prom, but did the after prom party... prom I was in Lebanon VA seeing my Lebanon friends graduate! I have to say my one friend who I have had for 14 years, has been there through thick and thin., and I don't know what I would have done at some points I have hit in my life.
Just look at what I have accomplished over the years!
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