If you are lucky in life, you will make friends. There friends will be there for you - through thick and thin.
Then life happens and you lose track of them. You wonder where they are; how their life has gone. Are they happy? Do they have children? Where do they live?
Not until recently through the great wonders of google and people searchs has one been able to find these friends.
In the last year I have found or they have found me - people from school and people from when we were in the military. For some reason you remember certain people and others are "blanks".
I recently rejected going to my 40th high school reunion. Why? Because I wouldn't know anyone. I did know two people that were coming - one from Texas and one from California. But I shorted myself on not going. I did have something to do that night, but I could have gone over afterward. Yet, on the way to the reunion I got to the street I turn on to go home and I did just that, I went home.
The class decided to try and have another reunion in 2010 to celebrate what will be most of our 60 yr old birthday year. That would be cool. Maybe I will make it to that one.
Then there are the friends you get to know while you are in the military. No, I was not in the military but my husband was - so therefore I was. Right? You grow close to these people because (like at college) you are away from family and friends and you are put into a unit and you make friends. It has been great talking to one that has found me. We have now found another and will be contacting her.
Life has a way of throwing the good and the bad at us. Or like my husband has said "in his quest to buy a corvette", you have a way of realizing you are getting older and not younger. We want to grab onto the old days and hang on for dear life.
In some cases the memories are not so good, but we were all young and made mistakes - get over it and go find some of those friends and see what they are up too. It might be worth it.
