Random Recollections

   She stood up in class, and began her speech:  "Nobody gives a damn about you."  I was 18 and she may have been a transfer student, a few years older,  and needing a Freshman Speech Credit Unit.  I didn't know her, remember nothing about her except those words, which led to kind of a power talk about self motivation or such.  I have no idea why those words and that thought stayed in my mind.  At the time, I had parents, other relatives and friends who I assumed cared about me.  I suspect I thought she may have had  some experience or insight which might reveal itself later in my life.
     That message the young woman delivered may have served as an inspiration in youth, but plays out cold and bitter when too much time has intervened.