High School: the second information superhighway.
If there's one thing I've learned from high school it's that news travels. Even if you only tell your trusted friends, even if you never actually tell anyone at all. Somehow, whatever it is that you are trying to keep under wraps, for whatever purpose, will get out, and sooner than you think. You see, I've had some news recently. Good news, but not the kind of news that I really wanted my entire high school in on. Sometimes people just want to get used to situations before the entire world decides it's their prerogative to weigh in. But there's already been a leak in the system, which is why I'm even talking about it at all. But I'm not going to drop the bomb until the whole can of beans is completely spilled. As it is, this post is probably hint enough, but I digress...
See, there are certain friends I just have to tell when things happen in my life. All of them can be counted on to be the paragon of discretion, so I must admit to no small amount of confusion that my news has leaked. They are the only ones who know (that and my pastor, but who's he going to tell??). Or rather knew. I soon realized my bubble of privacy was popped when I received a MySpace message from a most unlikely friend. He was inquiring about my news, and I promptly confirmed with a question of how he knew.
How?? How is it that as soon as you shove a few hundred teenagers into the same social and academic sphere any new fact concerning any part of the teenagers' lives becomes instant news and spreads like wildfire? How is it that even if you don't tell anyone about anything somehow people manage to ferret out the info? And why are teenagers so obsessed with any piece of juicy info they can get on other teenagers?
That said, my news isn't all over the social network yet. And it's not like I'm hiding anything. I'm just surprised that it has gotten as far as it has.
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