Saturday, November 22, 2008
Through all the debuts I've been to, there was mostly one thing that were pretty constant: friend-made videos. My friend Tapel was always the one to make these videos for her friends and last night during her own debut, friends and family had happily returned the favor. They were beautiful and partially embarrassing.
Her mom spoke about Tapel's desire to have her own friend-made video once in high school while working on a video for a friend. She had wanted her own, too.
I never spoke about it nor did I ever ask for it, but the truth is while I attend debuts and watch the stream of pictures appear and fade, I had also wondered the same thing. In the middle of all the teenage angst, problems and events, I had wanted to be surprised for my birthday, too. A video, a surprise party, something like that.
Most likely the problem was that my plans to celebrate big never pushed through and instead, I chose the more logical less expensive path: money and a small party at home. There wasn't really a way for them to give me anything of that range. I didn't even have a projector at home!
But I'm just saying. I think it would have been nice to be pleasantly surprised.
11:24 PM