Catching up

 I MARKED ANOTHER trip around the sun a few days ago. It was a good day. And I'm getting old.

Later on during the day a text message popped up from a friend I haven't heard from in ... forever. We were buds in high school and my one disastrous year at Calvin College more than 40 years ago. I got her email address and we got caught up and it was a great thing.

I've lost contact with most of those friends from those years. We all moved far away from Grand Rapids and the whole life thing took over. And that's a shame. 

I wonder where they are and if life has been good to them and what they think now.

I also want to go back and confront that dumbass kid that was me all those years ago. "Hey. Wake up! Screw your head on straight and start realizing how good you are going to have it!" would be the main message.

Thank you, friend, for taking me back and reconnecting all these years later. Here's to hoping it won't be that long until we communicate again!