// I wrote this back in 2010, (September 9, 2010 1:41 pm) thinking oh wow. I have literally filled books with the things that people don't know about me. I'm revisiting drafts and collecting thoughts to get them out there. It's twelve years (and seeing a lot of positive images of people that look like me in movies and television, of reading articles written by people that literally experienced moments from my own life) later and now you have context for when this is being published.About 20 years ago, a teenage boy was inspired by one Neal Patrick Harris’s portrayal of a brilliant teenage doctor finding himself in situations where he feels that he just doesn’t belong.
Admittedly, the show wasn’t that great. But it did end with our protagonist, Doogie Howser, MD writing a pithy, three sentence observation of life at the end of the show, every show.
For some reason, the boy latched on to that.
There is just something about the written word. It is in the moment, and you can’t take it back. Like all communication, it’s caught up in the context in which it was produced.
In this case, it was produced by a 15 year old boy that attended a Catholic High School in San Diego.
The soundtrack for this time is based on radio signals and magnetic spools of music purchased in brick and mortar stores.
Wilson Phillips’s “Hold On” was number one for 1990.
20 years later, that boy has undergone some changes. He went to college and never looked back.
He found this box of 20 year old journals and realized that there was a chance for self discovery here. Maybe he’ll find out that the same issues then are the same issues now. Maybe he’ll never work them out, but maybe he’ll find out what they are while he does some post game analysis.
Maybe.
// 30 Years Later, this boy starts looking at his current journals. Also, "post game analysis?" Really?