“The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”
I’ve been struggling this weekend with organizing some thoughts. Thoughts connected through two disparate sources – the release of ACT scores and my reading of Kathy Valentine’s biography.
Valentine, in case you are unfamiliar, is a founding member and bass player of the seminal all-girl rock band The Go-Go’s. While Valentine achieved tremendous success as a musician, early in her life there was little to indicate that she would rise to the pinnacle of success that she did.
She was raised in Texas by a single mother more interested in being a pal than a parent. As a result, she started playing around with sex, drugs, and alcohol at way too early an age. Her friends and she often skipped school to pursue those aforementioned interests. The strange part is, as sobering as her tale his, much of it is entirely familiar. Many of my peers can tell very similar stories about growing up.
At one point Valentine talks about a place right off campus where all the “losers” would gather before school. I think it’s a place most of us are aware of, and many of us frequented it all too often. IA smile escapes when I think back to my own adolescence.
At my high school, it was a pull-off on the main road to school less than 100 yards from campus.CONTINUE READING: WHAT’S A LITTLE LAW BREAKING AMONG FRIENDS? – Dad Gone Wild