I just had breakfast with four of my college friends today, and it was so great to be with them. The group is really seven of us, but two could not make it, unfortunately. In any case, it was so good to catch up with the other four today.
Do you ever step outside of yourself and the conversation you're having and just observe? As I was talking to two of the women, the others were having a conversation about something else, and I just kind of (metaphysically) shook my head at our ability to be together as one group yet function on different levels of conversations and connections.
Three of us are in our 50s -- two of us are pushing 60 -- one is in her 40s, and the "baby" is just 30 and expecting her first baby soon. Out of the five there, three of us could be a parent to the youngest one, and have kids either close to her age or older. Yet, over the course of the two-year college program we were in, we bonded and created friendships. We may not be at the same place in our lives, but somehow, we've found a common ground with each other, and it's one of the best experiences of friendship I hold dear.
Life is a funny place, and with each path of our journey through it, we touch and are touched by all kinds of people and experiences. Some of sloughed off purposely; others fall of their own accord.
We have to work at keeping connections with each other, and I'm guessing that is the purpose of some of the social networks out there...Facebook for one. I have managed to not get involved with Facebook...it is just too much information for my taste, and it's kind of creepy in a stalker kind of way, as far as I'm concerned. If I want to know more about you, I'll give you a call or send you an email asking you about your life. Send me pictures through the snail mail or on holiday cards or in email. Don't you think that by posting everything friggin' thing you've done in an hour is a bit much? Not to mention, posting your kids' pictures on a public board (yes, I know you can add blocks) seems to me an open invitation to creepy (yes, I've used the word again...it's so appropriate) relatives and the like.
You don't have to see the new movie to know that Facebook was created by college kids for that age group. Now, it appears that everyone and the granny is on it...shouting to cyberspace that they are doing this or that. Hmmm...I do not care enough I'm guessing.
Anyway, I'm just glad that these fantastic women and I have kept in touch. There are new babies to talk about and passings, and just life.
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