..:Current Mood: thinking
..:Listening to: Our Lady Peace .:. Is Anybody Home?
Have you ever noticed how people ALWAYS seem to stick to the first impressions they have of you? No matter how long you've known someone, or how well, the reason that we can always suprise people is that they can't shake the image they have of you.
It really hit me when I was at that damn reunion. Even after a whole night of talking to people I had known for most of my childhood, when I drove up in a car by myself they all kinda got this scandalised look on their faces. Weird.
And I'm not saying I'm innocent of doing this either. One of the reasons it was so strange going back to my elementary school was facing people, whom I had always thought of as my superiors, as an equal and an adult. I had real conversations with people, conversations that didn't stem from some prank I had done or not finishing my homework. It was hard to think that I didn't need to call these people sir or ma'am anymore.