Everyone was mean

So, apparently my request for help hit a nerve of some sort. Lots of people gave me advice, all (as in, each and every one) told me to contact my high school classmate. What surprised me was the incredible variance in the reasons why every said yes, and the surrounding advice. All of the advice was good, but none of it duplicated.

The common thread through all of the reasons was, as Lori put it better than I ever could, "that EVERYONE was a jerkhole in high school." Some of us were the recipient of someone else's meanness. And some of us were the meanness, which surprised me, as all my friends are good people. How could they be mean?

Oh, yeah, years later. Time. Maturity.