@drivenbyboredom
Of all the old film I got developed there were only four color negatives. This one is of this girl I had a bit of a crush on but she was dating this guy who was in this local punk band I loved when I was like 16. He was a couple years older than me and he and a couple of his bandmates jumped me "as a joke" and was always so fucking shitty to me. Years later we were living in the same city together and we became friendly.
Eventually I moved to NYC and came back to visit and I ran into him. He was dating someone new and he introduced me to her and made a joke about the time he jumped me. That shit was legitimately traumatic, but at this point in my life I wasn't going to let this fucking guy disrespect me like that so I got in his face about it and completely unexpectedly he kinda broke down and completely apologized. He told me that he was getting bullied for being a punk kid and he should have never taken that out on me and he was so impressed with what I had done with my photography and my career and he had been following it all while stuck working at some shitty job in Richmond, VA. I cannot tell you how cathartic that was. (Thread continues...)