It was raining today so I decided to do home stuff. All I planned on doing was moving some things around in the garage so it would be easier to take my motorcycle out. I ended up cleaning out the garage and throwing a ton of my old crap out.

I had boxes and boxes of school stuff, dating back all the way to my high school years (10+ years, scary!). I even had most of my college textbooks. Why I bothered to keep everything, I’m not quite sure, but it probably had to do with the fact that I thought maybe some day, I would need to reference them again. I realized today that I do not.

Boxed school stuff, dating all the way back to 1996…

Going through the boxes of school stuff was like a short trip through memory lane. I came across old reports of mine, old textbooks that are severly outdated, and even notes from classes that I don’t even remember taking. Cinema Studies? Really?? Going through all the old stuff also served to remind me of how technology has made such a huge impact. During the days when I went to high school, I didn’t have a computer. I had to do all my reports with a typewriter. Yeah, a typewriter. Imagine how efficient I’d be in high school now. My reports all had Courier New font and sweet black & white photocopied pictures (colour printers were things of dreams back then). I even had each typed page in some glossy protective sleeve, to make it look professional. It’s funny.

Cleaning out my educational past was relaxing. It gave me a sense of exactly how I got to the point I am at right now in life. If I didn’t take a particular course, how different would my life be? Did Cinema Studies somehow play a major role in my mental development? I can’t say for certain, but I do have a great appreciation for Charlie Chaplin. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a few yearbooks from high school that I want to look through and think to myself, Oh my god, I was such a loser.