I’m going to wax philosophical for a second. There is only one thing I hate about life, and that is meeting new people. Before you get all excited and call me antisocial, hear me out.
Everyone likes to take the easy road. Well, maybe not everyone, but for the majority of people, wouldn’t you think folks would prefer to just sort of glide along? Not that we don’t have ambitions, just that the ambitions wouldn’t take a lot to accomplish. I would love to be fluent in Portuguese, but I’d prefer it not take years to happen. Let’s switch gears to more morbid things. If you could live your life without experiencing the deaths of others, wouldn’t you prefer that? Death is a part of life that we all have to deal with, and people deal with it every day, but I’m sure most of us would rather not have to.
That kind of sets the background for a thought I had the other day. it’s a recurring thought that pops up from time to time. I suppose I could change my original statement to be something like “I hate meeting new people, getting close to them, and then leaving them.”
I was driving home from work one day last week and started thinking about some friends I made in college. When I first started, it didn’t take long to find a group I gelled with. There were only about 6 or 7 of us, but I would say we were pretty tight all the way through OCC, and even stayed connected for a little while after that. I am still to this day indebted to one of them for allowing me to live with him in Buffalo while I worked at an internship he got me for three months. When I moved back to Richmond, I managed to get in touch with another one, but we have since lost touch again.
I’m a very social person, and I love having a few close friends. I don’t like leaving those friends. I am finding myself in a similar situation at work. There are a few of us that, were we in college or without families, would probably hang out constantly. A few have already left the company. I really would prefer to spend the rest of my professional life working with these people. But I know that probably won’t happen, and it makes me a little sad to think about.
My friends mean a lot to me. I don’t want to keep having to make new friends and then one day having to leave those friends. Fortunately the internet is an amazing way to keep in touch, but even then you can lose it. In case any of you has happened across this, Mike, Greg, Marie, Jon, Shelly, or Jeremy, I still think about y’all from time to time, and I miss you.
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I'm Jason, and I like to write.
Dude, what’s up man? I have been trying to figure out a way to get a hold of you for some time now. Then I came across this blog entry today and knew it was you. I have been looking all over this site but can’t find your email address, but we seriously need to get together and catch up on old times.
Hey Jason!!!! wow Mike W. jsut sent Me this link…So glad you haven’t forgotten about me…..I think of you all still. E-mail me…we are tying to come up with a way to get together!