Unforgettable

Sometimes, I will run into the people I used to hang out with, and when I say people, I mean the people of my partying and raising hell days. When I see these people, I guess they assume that I am still the person I was back then, without my medicine, which sometimes was a bad thing. I hurt a lot of people back then, with my words, the things I did and what not. Sometimes, the people whom I met later, after I had settled down, and got "right", will just assume that I am the person they heard I was before still, Does that make any sense? Anyway, it hurts and it's hard to try to explain to people that you aren't the same as you were. They won't let you forget. People in this town look at me funny, when I tell them I am trying to get my teaching degree, as if they are afraid to let thier children around such a person as me. Why can't people understand, that a person can change? A person can see the other side of the fence and step over it? I don't know. Maybe, it's just my own guilty feelings, maybe, it's me who can't forget. Either way, it really bothers me and at times, is really embarrassing, especially when I have a person I used to do bad things with on one side of me, and a person who knows this side of me,.standing on the other side of me. That's really awkward. Do you ever feel like people won't let you forget?