During the 90s I went out with a few girls. We had long since grown apart and recently I heard some awful rumours about all of them. I got worried and decided to look them up.
My first stop was the graveyard. I heard that one of them died a very tragic death. I went looking for her grave but couldn't find it anywhere. I did find one grave belonging to one of her relatives though and I stopped here for a while. Suddenly I heard someone call my name.
I turned around and it was her! Very much alive and healthy and happy! We hugged and chatted about old times. I felt that times which were long gone were lost forever but we relived them through memories. The rumour got her mixed up with this relative. I sympathised with her loss.
The next girl was a major heartthrob in our school. I heard that she destroyed her life with cosmetic surgery and substance abuse. I sought her out and eventually found her. This rumour was very much false also. She ran a flower shop now, so she was very much still into beautiful things. She was aging gracefully and had a wonderful family now too. We reminisced on our youth, which we knew was gone, but we accepted it and cherished the memories when we chatted.
The last girl I remember joining a gang after we broke up. A no good gang and that was the truth. I heard that every single member of that gang got murdered or went to jail. I didn't hear a thing about her though and so I got worried. When I found her I learned that she was actually living a decent life, but she kept her rebellious spirit by getting involved in activism. When we met up and chatted about old times, she got very passionate. She said our generation was a lost and much reviled one by the mainstream. I thought about it and told her about others I had met recently.
She said that the mainstream was trying to tell us that we had a worse quality of life in the early 90s than we did now so she wasn't surprised about all these rumours. She was fighting back through political activism. I decided to join her for a few rallies. I wanted to make our lives better instead of worse and doing this helped.
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