Countdown To Fifty

Over the last 2 months I have had the chance to reconnect with two old friends. One I have known since I was 15 years old and the other I have known since I was 19. The reasons we lost touch were attributed to simply loosing track of contact information.

In both cases the opportunity to re-engage in each other’s lives was really great. It seems as if there is a wonderful ability to resume a conversation with old friends that know your past in a manner that feels like the conversation really had not taken a decade long hiatus.

Garrett was a great high school friend. We spend too much time ‘enjoying life’ in our teen years. The 70’s were a time when partying was a full contact sport and we played at the professional level! Now he is the CEO of a software company and is married with 5 kids. I am fortunate that Garret decided to track me down by calling my mother who gave him my number.

Joey was a friend I met in LA in 1979. Specifically, she worked in the same office building as me and I developed a crunch on her. Once she caught me peeking at her through the mail slot on her office door. While nothing ever developed romantically we became friends and had remained so for 20 years before we lost touch. Out of the blue I decided to call her business yesterday and I am sure glad I did.

The great thing about old friends is that they know things about you that you simply would not or could not feel comfortable disclosing to new friends. They have a unique take on the road map of your life because they have traveled the road such a long way with you.

I find that there is something uniquely special about cuing up a dormant relationship.