2008.01.03
Two Birthdays
Today is JRR Tokien’s birthday. He would have been a really old guy by now, maybe even older than my carbon-datable Dad. Hi Dad!
It’s also the birthday of my friend Synnove. We met in high school. While I was back east over the holidays I met up with her and our friend Wade. It was the first time seeing Synnove since she got married some 14 years ago, and about 7 since Wade and I last saw each other. I don’t think the two of them had seen each other since we all graduated from high school.
As we sat and talked something struck me about our conversation that I never noticed about my friends, both old and new. After a few stories about what we’d all been up to the past too many years and catching each other up on mutual friends that the others hadn’t heard from, we didn’t talk much about the past. The general nostalgia for old times, to recall the adventures we’d had, to reminisce about them as if those days could never be attained again… That was absent.
Instead we talked about our lives.
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- CT says (January 7th, 2008 at 06:50:35 )
Brace yourself, but this might just be a sign that you’ve all finally grown up. My own circle of school-era friends, inevitably, can’t seem to get past this reminiscence exercise.
