July 29, 2006
Reunions
It has been a fortnight of reunions. I was making a family tree on the site GeneBase and during the research into family names came across a site that claimed to have millions of names in its database. When I tried to get the names they wanted me to enter info about the secondary School I graduated from. There I found the name and address of an old classmate. My cousin and half the class used to have a crush on him. Well I saw it and promptly forgot all about it. Then I received a mail from this classmate and soon we were exchanging notes on all the others and I was suddenly in contact with a lot of them. Some of them actually in the same town as me. Soon we were emailing photos, catching up on news about old teachers and telling each other about our spouses and kids. Right now I receive at least one email from one of them every day and we have a lot of catching up to do. It is fun now. Though I wonder if any of us will have the energy to keep up the tempo.
It is nice to be in touch with them without all the old competitiveness and crushes and feelings and jealousies. Just plain friends. But maybe the old feelings never go away and all we really want to know is how the others have done. To see if any of us has done better than the others. The pettiness really never goes away.
It has been a fortnight of reunions. I was making a family tree on the site GeneBase and during the research into family names came across a site that claimed to have millions of names in its database. When I tried to get the names they wanted me to enter info about the secondary School I graduated from. There I found the name and address of an old classmate. My cousin and half the class used to have a crush on him. Well I saw it and promptly forgot all about it. Then I received a mail from this classmate and soon we were exchanging notes on all the others and I was suddenly in contact with a lot of them. Some of them actually in the same town as me. Soon we were emailing photos, catching up on news about old teachers and telling each other about our spouses and kids. Right now I receive at least one email from one of them every day and we have a lot of catching up to do. It is fun now. Though I wonder if any of us will have the energy to keep up the tempo.
It is nice to be in touch with them without all the old competitiveness and crushes and feelings and jealousies. Just plain friends. But maybe the old feelings never go away and all we really want to know is how the others have done. To see if any of us has done better than the others. The pettiness really never goes away.
posted by Choomma at 11:23 AM
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