Just a quick thought, but for those of you who have graduated from college. Have you ever thought of how much more important your close friends are to you now than they where while you were in college and way back when you were a child?
When we were younger, we didn't really concern ourselves, at least for me, with finding a really really close group of friends. Mainly because we had such a plethora of people to choose from and really, to be honest, we always saw our friends everyday.
As we age, and live our own lives, it becomes much harder to keep in touch and to really stay local to your friends. Its not impossible, as I've seen my brother do it with his core group of friends, granted they're pretty spread out but the majority remain within 30mins of each other.
I on the other hand have a much harder time, I've been blessed to have 8 really close guy friends. Of course, if you don't already know from me telling you, 5 of them are happily married. Yeah, thats right, mid 20's and HAPPILY Married. Well, I haven't been fortunate enough to have them remain within 30mins of where I am. I have one across the nation in DC, one across the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii, 1 in Newport, 1 in Laguna, 1 in Irvine, and 1 in Villa Park and 1 in well, depends on the time of the year, he may be in another country or in newport. Worst, I will be moving down to San Diego in August and will be closer to two hours away from all of them.
My point, or observation rather, is that its so hard to organize our schedules to workout where we are able to see each other like we use to in undergrad all the time, life carries us on different paths, paths that have intersected and now wine the road hopefully to intersect more often than not and keep us remotely close. Needless to say, they are my closest friends, ones I can depend on and ones I know no matter what happens in our own lives, when I'm around them, life is good. Life is grand, and I can't complain.
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