My wife and I are getting ready to make a non-business trip for the first time in about eight years to the east coast. Actually western Pennsylvania where I grew up!
Through the social network sites I have reconnected with friends and acquaintances I have known since I was about.....six years old!! Many of these people I have not seen in almost 36 years.
So a friend today made a challenging question on her blog today, "Do you go to reunions?". I have to stop and think a bit. My wife and I did attend our reunion in 1994 last time. The key question is why?
Personally, I might not have changed a whole lot since those days. I tend to build quality relationships with a fewer number of people than shallow ones with a large number of people. Looking back, I have to say my high school years may have been more formative than college. My college years were more task focused and quite frankly, I remember many more of the people I will see this weekend than my college classmates.
For me it is important (and fun) to reconnect occasionally from where you came from. Those people, places and relationships (good and bad) have shaped the person you have become. There is also the "roots" factor. Pittsburgh is the town where at least one set of great grandparents emigrated from Ireland and where I was born and raised.
It's not critical to me that I was not an athlete, or one of the "in" crowd in high school. It's who we have become and the mark we will leave behind that count. The broad array of business, professional and artistic talent represented by my classmates is impressive and I always look forward to the opportunity to renew old friendships and create new ones.
If my post is rambling.......blame Carol!
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