5 years

I went out to lunch with a friend from high school this week. He is not someone I went to school with- but we went to youth group summer programs together 2 summers in a row. We were pretty good friends for awhile after- send e-mails back and fourth but never actually seeing each other. As more time passed and I went to college, we lost touch completely. The dissolving of out friendship was no ones fault other than time.

I hadn't though about him probably since Sophomore year of college- until last week when he wrote on my Facebook wall. I couldn't believe it! He was in New York visiting and wanted to get together. Right before he came to my office for lunch, no lie, I was a little nervous. What if him and I had nothing in common other than those two summers at camp? What if we had things to talk about for the first 30 seconds of our meal, and then nothing but silence and awkwardness?

I very rarely get nervous or anxiety about social situations- but for some reason, my nerves were shot. But luckily, there was nothing to worry about! We had a great lunch, talked about the summers at camp and then the rest of our lives- what has been going in our lives over the past 5 years- and how we both couldn't believe it has been 5 years already.

Lunch was overall great, we caught up and who knows the next time I will actually see him in the flesh, but our little date got me thinking: Is this what happens in real life, just one day, I will turn around and can't figure out how I got where I am at? No idea where the time has gone or how it slipped away? Even now I cannot believe how it has almost been 9 months since graduating college- since I left the womb of Bloomington, Indiana to the harsh reality of the real world.

I guess the real question is... where does it go, Time?

Questions of the universe...

Peace, love, and Old Friends,

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