School Reunions
Frankly I’m a little bit dismayed! I was recently notified that my old school is holding it’s annual alumni day event this week. I’ve never gone to any of these things in the past; and I won’t be going to the one that's being held this year, either.
As I mentioned to my wife the other day: You can’t, ever, really go back. You just can’t. Events like this one can, also, bring up as many unpleasant as pleasant memories, as well: Nobody looks the same; everybody looks older, heavier, balder, and, probably, weaker too.
Most people at these events tend to see you for what you have acquired in life rather than for what you’ve worked so hard, for so long, to become.
You can show off: a new BMW, a Brooks Brothers suit, a Rolex, or a, ‘trophy wife’; but you can’t show off the facts that you’ve never been in jail, are trusted by your community to go about, ‘armed and dangerous’, have been happily married to the same woman for the past 40 years, and spent all of that time doing no deliberately harm to any other honorable man.
No, when the celebration kicks off at 9:00 AM next Saturday morning, once again, I’m not going to be there; nor, do I feel like I’m missing anything.
As I mentioned to my wife the other day: You can’t, ever, really go back. You just can’t. Events like this one can, also, bring up as many unpleasant as pleasant memories, as well: Nobody looks the same; everybody looks older, heavier, balder, and, probably, weaker too.
Most people at these events tend to see you for what you have acquired in life rather than for what you’ve worked so hard, for so long, to become.
You can show off: a new BMW, a Brooks Brothers suit, a Rolex, or a, ‘trophy wife’; but you can’t show off the facts that you’ve never been in jail, are trusted by your community to go about, ‘armed and dangerous’, have been happily married to the same woman for the past 40 years, and spent all of that time doing no deliberately harm to any other honorable man.
No, when the celebration kicks off at 9:00 AM next Saturday morning, once again, I’m not going to be there; nor, do I feel like I’m missing anything.
