As I eluded to earlier, Jeff and I spent this weekend watching our friends from college (well, for me -- Jeff's known Joe since middle school) get married. It was really nice seeing everyone. Joe's moved to the D.C. area and Lynn travels around the country doing theater and a lot of our college friends have scattered after graduation.
Basically, the wedding turned into a reunion of sorts for Jeff and me. We both saw faces from the past that we haven't seen in at least six years, if not longer. And it's funny seeing those faces and how we've all changed.
In college, a lot of these people were gothy as hell. Now, the men's hair is cut short. We're a little older, the hair is grayer and most of the chains and spikes are retired from our clothing. Perhaps the biggest shock for me was seeing Chad -- a guy who I sort of knew -- with short and salt-and-pepper hair. He used to have long, black hair that was the envy of women and men. Not to mention he could rock the black leather jeans like no one else.
But we still basically act the same. The same jokes flowed freely, the same quirks cropped up. Seeing Jeff, Alan, Joe and Tyler (a friend from college) together brought back a lot of memories when I was dating Jeff and hung out with the other guys. Hell, Joe and Tyler were my roommates for a year or so.
During the reception, Tyler asked me how we ever lost track with each other. I didn't know how to respond to that. The best answer I could offer is "life."
And that's the truth. The older we get, the less we see these people because our jobs aren't in the same place, we don't live together as roommates. Our lives get busy and we get pulled in different directions.
But no matter what, it's nice to know that there's people out there who have warm feelings for you. And it's also a remind that we need to cut the "we should get together" bullshit and actually do it.
Hopefully we'll be doing that. I'm hoping that we'll have dinner soon with some of these people again.
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