The Yearbook

Flipping through yearbooks provides a fascinating glimpse of the times, the fads, the interests, society. A yearbook can hold good and bad memories. Yearbooks take us back in time to remember the class clowns, the jocks, the nerds, all the clubs that our high school had because back then and now we are put into some kind of category.

This week the kids are taking their yearbook picture, and of course, they are all really excited about it. I went into the girls bathroom, and it was about to burst. They were all combing their hair, and talking about how ugly they all came out in last year's yearbook, and how hopefully this year they come out better.

Now as a grown up you come to realize that worrying about how your yearbook picture will come out is the least of your worries.

It's hilarious to go back, and look at your picture, and think my god! What the....

And as the famous columnist Faulkner Kosalko humorously put it, “Yearbooks make almost anyone from any generation say quietly to themselves, ‘What in the world was I thinking?’”