impermanence
Added 2023-06-09 00:38:00 +0000 UTCwhile i was back in SC...
so i went back to SC for work and family stuff. My friend Bishop flew in to attend the show (more on that some day) and we drove around town, just because i hadn't really done so in years.
Out of curiosity, i drove to my old middle school. I planned to drive the route my grandmother took to pick me up to explain why she was always so early, show the big tree where I'd give back scratches for case quarter during recess, point out the space where the band room was—except it wasn't there.
The whole building was gone. Like they just picked it up and moved it. No trace at all. If there wasn't a CCSD fence around it no one would ever know there was a school there. There were even geese just...chillin. That's how long ago they tore it down.
This isn't the first school I've attended that's been relocated/rehomed. But it is the first one whose building was just....gone.
It hurt. Still kinda does.
But at least the land is green and healthy.
And i just looked it up. the school still exists. But it's now split with a north and south campus? I'm not sure why that's a thing but...ok.
