JStarStar
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Spotted him on Facebook tonight; he has been on my friends list for 2-3 years but we have never exchanged messages. So I decided to shoot him a PM.
We were pretty good friends in grade school and HS -- not BEST friends but definitely in the same clique -- but after HS basically he pulled up his stakes and left town. It wasn't that we avoided each other but neither of us came back to town at the same time since high school.
As it turns out, he is definitely NOT a BAR -- he didn't exactly laugh when I mentioned I still flew rockets, but he acted like he barely remembered doing it himself. He was deep deep into rocketry in the 1960s, designed and flew his own models, etc etc.
It was kind of a strange conversation, he was not rude but he was fairly short in the convo and 3-4 times said, "oh I don't want to talk about the past, I focus on what I am doing right now."
That's all fine but really neither one of us was doing anything particularly interesting right at the moment, but he kept going on, "wow, doing laundry tonight, what do you have set up for tomorrow, washing the car, grocery shopping," etc etc etc etc ... i mean, who cares??
I don't think I was expecting any huge explosive reunion, but it just felt a bit weird how little we had in common any more. But I guess that's what happens in 39 years.
We were pretty good friends in grade school and HS -- not BEST friends but definitely in the same clique -- but after HS basically he pulled up his stakes and left town. It wasn't that we avoided each other but neither of us came back to town at the same time since high school.
As it turns out, he is definitely NOT a BAR -- he didn't exactly laugh when I mentioned I still flew rockets, but he acted like he barely remembered doing it himself. He was deep deep into rocketry in the 1960s, designed and flew his own models, etc etc.
It was kind of a strange conversation, he was not rude but he was fairly short in the convo and 3-4 times said, "oh I don't want to talk about the past, I focus on what I am doing right now."
That's all fine but really neither one of us was doing anything particularly interesting right at the moment, but he kept going on, "wow, doing laundry tonight, what do you have set up for tomorrow, washing the car, grocery shopping," etc etc etc etc ... i mean, who cares??
I don't think I was expecting any huge explosive reunion, but it just felt a bit weird how little we had in common any more. But I guess that's what happens in 39 years.