I am Having the Best Time

12 years ago

Re connecting with old acquaintances.

Two of my high school friends started a Face Book group for the people that were proud to be from our little town that was annexed by Windsor in the 1960's. After our beloved meeting place - the arena - was torn down this summer we all felt the loss of that building deeply. Our lives all connected one way or another in the arena.

Some of us started out in that group as just acquaintances - someone we knew from the neighbourhood, the arena or school classrooms and hallways. Acknowledging each other but never being friends. Well, now we all have become friends through our collective memories. Now the group isn't so much into reminiscing but just friends old and new getting together and chatting, sharing humour, stories of our lives - past and present and supporting each other in sad times. Almost like the KT but more personal.

We are a group of published writers (how our teachers would be proud), singer -song writers, musicians, lawyers, artists,doctors, backstage hands, proud parents and grandpaerents. Many walks of life are represented by the people of our little group of 350 or so members. I have laughed myself silly until I cried and cried because of someone who is hurting. I love this group.

We decided to have a get together thinking only 30 or so of the usual posters would meet up but the event swelled to over 80 people crammed into a small local bar. I have never been hugged so much in my life!! Our musician friends sang their songs and played their guitars, our resident poet read her poems of growing up in our small town. I am the proud owner of one of her books - The Truth About Rollerskating which features one of my roller skates on the cover. Some of our teachers showed up and actually look younger than some of us.

I harboured a surprise guest in my home for a few days before the party and boy she sure was a surprise at the get together. We were sneaky and somehow pulled it off.

Oh the pictures that were taken. I don't like to have my picture taken - I have issues with how I look. I don't mind seeing pictures of myself before the age of 16 but when I see pictures of myself from the age of 17 and beyond I can see the exact moment I started to gain weight and why. Not a good time in my life but seeing these pictures now has been like an intervention and even though I don't like how I look I can finally look at myself without thinking about the time I was sexually "groped" by a family friend and how my screams were laughed at and ignored. Now I can laugh at my pictures or make comments on them. I am who I am and that young girl who was hurting is now gone thanks to this group of friends.

I love how some of us wouldn't hang around together in our youth because they were part of the popular group or whatever but after talking we have all realized we were all feeling the same feelings of teenaged angst at the same time and not thinking we were fitting in or not being part of the "cool" group. I love how we all know now that we were noticed by someone at the time even though we never knew it.

New friends for life. What a wonderful thing.

Anne

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sheilajoyce_gw
12 years ago
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Happy for you! What a nice development from your Facebook pages.
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
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Anne, your happiness is contagious!
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User
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I agree with everyone. Another great gift that will change your lives forever.

Congrats for getting to that breakthrough in your trauma.
I am so sure there are many people who are happy for you.
Good story.
maire_cate
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Anne that is absolutely wonderful - it's heartwarming. Maybe one of the writers in your group will turn it into a published piece - I can just imagine all the different stories that have taken place. I am so happy for you.
lynn_d
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
That is wonderful, Anne, I am thrilled for you. Best of luck, I'm glad you are finally accepting yourself.
sleeperblues
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I am so happy for you, Anne. I wondered why you hadn't been posting a lot lately, but this answers it. It sounds like you and this group have a bond you have with no one else, having grown up together and experienced that part of your life together.

I want to know more about the secret friend, though!
alisande
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Ah, connectedness--I love it!!
nanny98
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Thank you for sharing your story. Once more, one of the blessings of wisdom that comes with getting older. Way to go, Anne
chisue
12 years ago
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Thanks for sharing your happiness and enthusiasm!

You've come a long way, baby. (Trite but true.)
sue_va
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Anne, how I've missed your presence here at the KT! We had such good fun together.

You are obviously at the right place now, in more ways than one, and I hope you can find your place here at the Table again.

I understand the "not being part of the "cool" group" although cool was not the word in my time. So much of that was in only our minds I think.

Again I am reminded of the line from The Odd Couple TV show: You can't make new old friends.

Happy for you. Keep us posted.

Sue
amicus
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Anne, we've communicated before and I believe you grew up in the Walkerville area of Windsor? I wouldn't know anyone from your neck of the woods, but I do like reading posts from the Facebook group called 'If you grew up in Windsor, On.' I'm happy for you that you're having such a great time reconnecting with past 'neighbourhood' Windsorites!
satine_gw
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
CherryFizz, I can hear the joy in your "voice" and am so happy for you. Having friends to talk with is a blessing and can make such a difference in our lives. Have fun and enjoy yourself. Satine
kacram
12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I'm glad, Anne!
Hey, did your relatives ever make it over from...
umm.. England, was it?
Cherryfizz
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12 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Thanks - haha I need to take grammar lessons again judging from what I wrote above. LOL

Picky, Riverside not Walkerville. I joined that Windsor group on Facebook but it got boring after awhile when the same questions by newcomers were asked over and over and over. I can't count how many times I have seen the question "does anyone remember the Red Barn" LOL there were only so many memorable places in Windsor and LOL to me the Red Barn was not one of them. I always thought they had the worst hamburgers so never frequented there.

I missed you too Sue and posting at the KT - so many new faces which is great!

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