Facebook has been an interesting experience. When I first made my profile I had my close friends contact me and add me as their friends, and soon, everyone I had ever met growing up, going to school, college, law school, or through work was contacting me. At first, I wasn't very discriminating about who I "allowed" to be friends with me, which meant a lot of people from the high school I graduated from were in my list of friends.
I graduated from an all-male, Catholic, military high school. So of course, I am sure most of the guys I attended with (heterosexual, conservative, and religious) were not going to take it well that I was gay. For the most part I noticed that all of them remained in my friends list. But one by one, they all disappeared from view. Soon, no one from that high school was on my list. It just gave me a flashback to growing up with them, and feeling different and being treated different.
I couldn't wait to get away from that limited, provincial outlook that they all adhered to. Almost all of them have stayed in Savannah and still do everything they were taught to do, blinding following the same path their parents and families have always followed. I am glad I have followed my own path and have explored what it is like to live outside those confines.
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