Lean On Me

when you're not strooonnnggg
and I'l be your frieeenddd. I'll help you caaaaryy on. for, it won't be loooong
till I'm gonna need, somebody to leaaaannnn on

All singing aside this is actually kind of a serious post.

At first, I didn't really have an idea for it. The only thing was Lean On Me being stuck in my head, seeing as how we are singing it in choir. then it occurred to me.
insight.

In my last post I mentioned how I was never able to picture myself, or my life, outside of high school. Which led me to believe that there WAS no life outside of high school. Up until this very day I pretty much wrote this off as a universal truth. Today I began to face the reality of how not only will MY life will continue to go beyond the asbestos-covered walls of NHS, but the lives of my peers will continue as well. An honestly, it makes me all the more excited to think that soon I won't have to live in a world where not only is everyone super obnoxious, but where you don't feel like your life revolves around doing homework.

Where will my fellow classmates be in five years? ten? twenty? fifty? it's crazy to think that the guy that sits behind me in physics could be the next president (actually that's probably a lie, he's a dolt) or that the girl next to me in choir could be as famous as Lady Gaga...minus the meat suit. They'll all have careers, kids, perhaps an affair or two. kidding...that was supposed to be funny.

It's hard to tell if the people we rely on most now will continue to serve the same purpose and bring the same joy when as we go through our lives. Perhaps we will lose them, or misuse them, and new ones may come along and show us new adventures and new love. I hope that in my life my friends, or maybe just some of them, end up being with me for a very long time.

I look at adults in my life, my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and see that even though very few of their friends remain, due to geographic distance, age, or communication disconnection, they still live a great life.

I believe that friends in high school are really essential to the social growth and change that occurs. It's a scary and somewhat confusing process, and without people to confide in or help you in whatever way possible, it becomes ten times the task you originally thought it was.


I'm not even sure that the concept fits that well with the song Lean On Me, but hey, it's the words are true. well all need someone in our lives to help us carry the loads we lug around, whether they help by listening or making you laugh they are still important.

Just at this very moment I've decided something. At least once a week I will post a deep insightful post about life with the song lyrics as a title. Genius? Hell yes.