25 years ago...

We were seniors in high school. Most likely we posed for a pic similar to this somewhere inside the walls of the high school. We were classmates, we were friends, we were Seniors. The most important thing to me 25 years ago was graduating and getting out of town. I wasn't concerned with 25 years in the future, I really wasn't even concerned with 1 year into the future. I simply lived for June and the freedom I imagined that diploma would bring me. I wanted to escape the confines of small town life.
I lasted a month and returned home...each of us journeyed the paths we chose, each of us ended back here in the town we grew up in. Our paths crossed often at events or activities for our kids. This pic was snapped at a dance performance. We each have a daughter on the team, and yes those daughters are all seniors. Someone said we should get a pic of the mom's who take so many pics, thus the picture you see. It wasn't until later when I loaded my pics onto my computer did the significance of that picture click. It has been 25 years, since we stood in those hallways as seniors, a lifetime ago, and yet it seems like just a moment has passed.
Our daughters are the ones now waiting for June and all the possibilities it will bring. it really has been 25 years...