I instigated, participated and attended a school reunion a couple of years back. We were fifteen, and that was fifteen years ago. I thought it would be pretty neat to see how much we had changed. Physically especially, and socially hopefully. Of course I didn’t expect the guys to be teasing the girls like old times. We were all in our 30’s, for crying out loud. So I saw people whom I had not seen for fifteen years. Some for even twenty! It was nice.
The reunion made me think of Desiderata, especially the part:
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If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
So I enjoyed the reunion, sharing some old jokes, recalling some old flames, seeing old friends…some looking ‘older’ than others, and some looking exactly like they did fifteen years earlier. And some behaving more childishly than some fifteen months old kids! So I told myself that that was okay too. Some people grow up, and many just grow old.
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