On this date, May 26, in 1972, I graduated from Coosa County High - TopicsExpress



          

On this date, May 26, in 1972, I graduated from Coosa County High School in Rockford, Alabama. For the fourth consecutive year, I am posting what I wrote in my journal that night. Enjoy. Graduation. The end of one life and the beginning of another. Went to Cburg (Childersburg) afterwards. Had fun. Me, David H (Hurt), Benjy O (Ogle), Ray E (Ellison), Steve K (Kelly), Blake K (Kelly), Tommy G (Girdner), Jimmy S (James Sanford) stayed out all night and had a ball. Me, Steve, Benjy, Jimmy, and Tommy slept at Howells. Got home at 9:00 AM.~~ After things wound down, we all slept in our cars that night. I had gotten an Orange 1972 Rally Nova only 15 days earlier and I was parked on the banks of Hatchett Creek about 10 miles west of Rockford. I was facing the water as I sat there alone, but not lonely. Hatchett is a shallow creek and I could see the water moving as the moon was reflected on the surface. Twelve years, 2/3 of my life, had passed with me in public school. I had nothing to do but think. Sleep was not in the cards. I looked at the slowly moving water and thought this is about what life is like-never staying, always moving. And not coming back. I wondered what I would be doing the rest of my life. I wondered who would go to college, who would get married, who would die first. Despite the heaviness of my ponderings, it was an incredible moment. It was the single most introspective time in my life, even up to now, as I sat there in the Nova. I was unsure of my lifes future track, but I was so at peace with my world at that moment. Some of us went to college, some didnt, but everybody was somebody. Some of us got married soon (I waited 16 more years), and Benjy and Tommy were the first two to die in separate car wrecks. If I could capture a moment in time and relive it periodically, it would be that night, alone in my car, watching the water move in the moonlight, the serious moonlight. Wondering. Contemplating. Meditating. A feeling of completeness tempered with serene anticipation. Ready to write the next chapter in my life.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 00:46:26 +0000

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