February 2012

How do you know you’ve made it?

When this question was originally posed to me, there were several reasonably appropriate answers that crossed my mind.

Ideally, a person could “made it” when they are able to splurge to their hearts content. Live the most carefree, worriless existence. Be revered by strangers and respected by friends. And have all that life has to offer at their doorsteps.

When I was in middle school, sexual experimentation had emerged and resonated within almost one third of my school’s female population.  Girls had taken on the traits of boys in the way they dressed, spoke or dated.  It had become customary to see two female students walking hand-in-hand down the hallway and into math class.  Whether you had this yearning desire since birth or it seemed like something you may as well try because your last boyfriend broke your heart, now was as good a time as any… because everybody else was doing it.