Recently we set up our photo booth at a high school prom.  I'm always amazed how this generation is so comfortable in front of the camera. No awkward poses or smiles, and every image is social media picture perfect!  It was a wonderful group of polite young adults celebrating this right of passage.  Gorgeous dresses & perfect hair, bow ties & cumber buns, corsages & boutonnieres filled the room as they danced to the music and awaited the crowning of Prom King & Queen. 

They may think that prom is the most important night of their life, but it's really just a four letter word full of the many emotions that plague us through high school and beyond. Most likely it's not the first dance they've attended, and certainly won't be the last. If you could go back in time what would you tell your high school self? I would say embrace the happy moments, celebrate your differeneces, learn from mistakes, forget the humiliation, don't sweat the small stuff, carefully pick your battles and then fight for your life, and never stop dancing!

 We all have those moments from high school when we want a do-over.  Erase the humiliation and hope no-one was looking. Back to my belief that everything happens for a reason, but sometimes the why can be much further down the road. A few anecdotal stories - fact, fiction, or in between.  We'll never tell!