School Days

If, as adults, we had the chance to go back, would we choose to sit up straight? Pay attention? Study harder?

What we have become today was shaped behind desks, on football fields, in closely knit circles behind bleachers. We shared the secrets of our souls, secrets that we don't remember now, but which seemed so important then.

The worries that we harbored then, seem so minor to us now. The shared secrets, the dropped pass, the occassional missed period, the dateless Friday nights. How I would love to trade my worries of today for those I had at seventeen.

I would sit up straighter. I would study harder. I would pay closer attention.

I would embrace those moments.