High School

I was looking in my hometown paper this week and noticed that a girl that I went to school with died this week. Apparently she was mixed up with prescription medication and accidentally overdosed. This was very hard for me. No, I was never close to Tammy, but I have known her my whole life. It has been almost 25 years since we last spoke. She was very pretty. She was also popular. She was a very sweet girl, and I can't think of anyone in high school that did not like her.

I wonder what went wrong in her life to get her to turn to drugs. I wonder what hardships she faced that caused her to get addicted to such a harmful thing. It is weird when you think about those old friends from high school. This caused me to go get out my yearbook and re-visit some old friends there are so many faces that I thought that I would never forget, that somehow have escaped my memory. There are others that I was soooo close to that I haven't even thought about for years. There are only two or three people who I keep in contact with from high school.

I will remember Tammy for the kind person that I remember so fondly...