2009-10-09, 11:43 PM
Quantact Wrote:Pick something that describes your personality. An off-handed joke doesn't really work here. Yearbooks at the time you get them are totally worthless. It's just a thing to carry around with your textbooks, and to have your friends sign so you feel cool. You don't really need it till 10-20 years from now, when high school is a distant memory, and you can barely remember the people you went to school with. Then, you open the yearbook, see notes they wrote, and see that quote, and it'll bring back a lot of memories.
That quote is meant to signify YOU, right NOW. In 10 years you will be a different person, but elements of you will still be there. You have no idea what it means to open the book to that quote, and there it is, who you were like 10 years ago.
Then consider that next to putting some random 4chan bull$hit in your yearbook, and you just totally ruined the whole thing. Don't treat this lightly, give it serious thought.
I personally put the quote Tolkien used to describe Arwen in Lord of the Rings. Back then I was just a hormone-crazed teenager, but I always had very vivid romantic fantasies, and sure enough, 10 years later, my writing is most remarkable for its romantic content. Not dumb drivel like what Danielle Steele does, actual romance. Kinda nice to see there were elements of that in me even back then, when I couldn't articulate it yet.
[color="#cc8899"]I disagree -
If you are a silly, random, lighthearted person, it reflects perfectly on you to put something silly, random, lighthearted. My parents always got mad at me when I wouldn't dress up for school pictures. Why? Because, as I attempted (and failed) to explain to them, it wouldn't be me in the picture. I don't dress up normally, so dressing up for a picture is a lie. They'd look back at it and remember someone who didn't exist. I'd much rather have a picture taken of me as I am from day to day, the real me, not a fake created only to look pleasant for 1 moment in time.[/COLOR]