Yearbook Signing: More Words, Less Meaning?

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I graduated about a week and four days ago. Before then, we received our yearbooks. One of my closest friends wrote an entire paragraph in my yearbook full of inside jokes. I read it and it seemed very lighthearted. As I read it, I found it lose meaning with every word. I wrote a very short message in her yearbook, but I thought it held a lot of meaning. With my pen, I lightly traced over the area she wrote in my yearbook until her writing (although still legible) was completely scribbled over. Has anyone felt anything similar?

Background information: I've had a crush on this friend for a while and she's moving back to NY over the summer. We mostly talked in school, sometimes not that often. We haven't talked since the weekend following graduation. That would be a week ago. I have a sad feeling that last weekend will be the last time I talked to her and graduation being the last time I see her again. My mom keeps saying "Well keep contact with her on Facebook, invite her over (or something along those lines)" but it doesn't seem to work that way. We're both on iChat now, we barely talked.

It seems like now I'm making a bit more of an effort to talk to her than she does with me, even though I've never given her a phone call or invited her anywhere. She's on iChat and I've said hey a few times, but now I feel like stopping and seeing if she'll ever be the one to say "hey, you wanna talk?"

It really depends. I have a friend who wrote an entire page in mine in really small handwriting and it still meant a lot, but I had friends who wrote long pointless things. And then there are of course those people that just write have a great summer. I think it's important just to write however much you feel is meaningful and it doesn't really matter how long it is

The most signatures the I got in a single year book (MS ones were cheap) was in 7th grade, which I think says a lot. You see, I was absent for several months due to psychological trouble - I witnessed the death of my final grandparent just before thanksgiving. Apparently they preferred my absence.

So, in a way, lots of words, but only one message as far as I'm concerned.

I wrote a paragraph telling my friends how much I love them (in a friend way, I didn't fancy them all ) It did have meaning and I prefer it to a short "bye everyone!" message.

I find that that is how it is with many yearbook signings, especially among some adolescent girls.

Don't worry, you'll get better signatures in high school I remember one guy gave me his number junior year. Too bad I was too chicken to text him to hang out or whatever. You should really try seeing if your friend can hang out. It's too late for me, I get one more shot at college. You on the other hand still have high school and college to look forward to. Oh, and btw, I had a billion signatures at the end of junior high school (because we ended in 9th grade, and that was the best year of my life) but nothing super long because most of them were superficial stuff like: you are such a fast runner, or you are such a good artist, or my personal favorite: you are going to be famous someday. But this year, I got some really cool (albeit, some of them are short) signatures in my yearbook. But if you what people to write more meaningful stuff about how you guys had a fun time in high school/junior high together....write more in their books, and if you know someone that will write good stuff in your yearbook....have them sign it first.

In my schooling career (wich was ages ago ) i only managed to get 1 yearbook out of my mom because she thought $35 dollars for it was way too expencive or whatever the price was

i wouldnt worry about it. i'm shure your friend still likes you alot even though you didnt like how much she wrote in it.

Could you imagine going to school with someone like lebron james? and getting his autograph? haha. wow, i bet people paid him to sign thier YB.