Different forms of irony found throughout life
April 04, 2008

Jessica Lulf
Crusader Staff

It is funny how life works out sometimes. There are many ironies in life. Generally, people hardly give them any thought. However, if you were to sit down and think about it, you would notice that many things are ironic in life.
One of the first things that I think of when I think of ironies is that many times classes or skills that people think they will use all the time, they do not. Instead, they use something that they learned in a fill-in class like an elective. Unlike trigonometry, the people in those usually do not ask when in their life they will use this class.
This also applies to activities. You may have done an activity in high school only to find that you really enjoy it. Then when you go on to college you will find that this activity will benefit you, especially if you join a club that fulfills your interest. For example if you worked on your high school newspaper, it would look good on your resume. If you had then joined the Crusader staff then more opportunities would present themselves to you.
Another thing that is funny is the people that come and go in a person’s life. Sometimes you will meet a person by chance at an event and think, “Oh I will see them again next year,” or at some other undetermined time in your life. Then what actually happens is you never see that person again or give them another thought.
There is also another type of irony; however, it applies to those people who have moved. Depending upon how many times a person moves and how big the town is, the person has met many people. Most of the time, a person assumes that they will never see these most of these individuals again, unless you were really close to them or are not moving that far away.
I have lived in Kimball, Nebraska; Goodland, Kansas; Greeley, Colorado; Fort Collins, Colorado; Ogallala, Nebraska; and I currently live in Hugoton, Kansas. Over the course of these moves, I have met many people, with the exception of Kimball, to which I have family ties, I have not seen most of the people that I knew from these places.
There is one exception to this. One of the people that I went to middle school with also goes to Seward. I had thought that I would never see anybody from the four other towns again.
The only way I figured that I would see these former classmates was if my current school played one of my former schools. I left this exception open because even though I would move there were times that the schools I attended would play my old schools.