Remember in seventh grade when we would eat lunch in our English teacher’s classroom instead of the cafeteria? We were learning about irony so our teacher was always playing “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette, which isn’t a good example of irony at all. I didn’t really understand that until much later.

That song came on the radio today while I was driving home from work. It’s not really a strange or rare occurrence. I hear that song occasionally while listening to that particular station, but I just happened to remember our middle school days together today. Such lovely days. If I knew how much adulting would completely suck, I would have never wanted to grow up. So much of our generation shares that sentiment and I’m not sure if it’s just something unique to us or if everyone feels like that.

Maybe it’s the internet. The internet has provided a way to share how you’re feeling with a lot of people and I think it’s a profoundly beautiful thing. No matter how you’re feeling, you can guarantee that if you search enough, you’ll find someone else somewhere in the world who feels just like you.

Growing up, I was always told that computers, technology, the internet, were all very isolating. My parents were always bitching at me to get off of the computer in order to socialize and be “a part of the world.” The funny thing is that I was a participating in the world. It just wasn’t the world that our parents’ generation understood so they felt left out and isolated.

Our lives are governed so much by fear these days. I would love to talk to you about this. If only I could have lunch one more time with you.