October 2nd, 2018
Hearts and Thoughts They Fade
I spent some time with Sharan and his family on Sunday touring the American Swedish Institute (new for me!) and generally catching up. They were visiting family and I got to meet Sharan’s wife Kyo and their son. I also ran into A-K and her wife Kristy while at ASI (not new for them, obviously!).
It felt like I already knew Kyo, which is funny, but she said the same thing. She said Sharan spoke often of his high school friends affectionately, and that she admired how much fun we all seemed to have. I said that as years have gone on, I’ve realized how lucky we all are, and how rare that is, and she agreed—she didn’t have that.
It was a scattered group, a bunch of nerds, and situational, but still it mattered. Jeff and I were talking this morning about situational relationships, regarding another matter, and while I think a lot of that was situational, circumstantial, sure, I still think we knew a lot more at 17/18 than we gave ourselves all credit for. We built a fun group.
AAAAAAAANYway. The point is it was cool and it’s cool to know I’m not the only one remembering it all fondly! And it is even cooler to know I’m building a lot of good relationships like that still today. People, I guess I’ve always attracted them.
OK now I am leaving, this post isn’t nearly as good as I envisioned on my drive in this morning, but I have a fun conference with fun people to go to 🙂 but I’ll miss my EXCEPTIONALLY FUN GROUP of people at home <3. Lots of good time with THEM coming up!