It could have gone either way. This weekend we were going to go and see old friends that we had not seen in around 15 years. Much water has gone over the damn since the last time we saw any of them. Of course we are all older, probably had changed physically, and have all had different life experiences since the salad days of 1993.
The build up and anticipation of facing these people lead to a day of thinking maybe we would call it off, but ultimately we decided to go and it was a great decision.
After again nearly backing out the last block before getting there we summoned our courage and went in. It would have been easy to back out since no one knew we were coming anyway.
It was all that we could have hoped for and more. I don’t go to class reunions or team reunions or anything like that. I’m just not normally a fan of that and find it difficult to know what to talk about outside of the, “Hey, what have you been up to the last umpteen years?”
What a nice surprise to be able to pick up conversation like it had been 15 minutes and not 15 years. The conversation, laughter and stories all flowed.
The best part though was when the person we were most looking forward to seeing said that he had spent time in the past three months looking for us on Facebook, Google and elsewhere. It was so nice to know that someone that had meant so much to us and that we had thought of so fondly over the years actually had cared for us as well.
So, we made a promise to not wait another 15 years and I hope that we keep it. I’m not convinced that I will become a fan of reunions or meeting up with people from the past but for one night it was a great time and I am so glad that we had the courage to go.
