That is soooo cool. Romance?
I don't know about romance, Chanel. I'm not actively seeking another significant other in my life. (I never actually was, but somehow I kept finding them all my life, anyway, if you know what I mean)
I think this event is probably more like us reaffirming that we are
still the same people we were when we were kids. We're older, wiser, more cynical, certainly.
But still.. somewhere inside of all of us lives that innocent child we once were, too, don't you think?
Only
very old friends can help us get in touch with that child, ya know?
And who doesn't still hold a place in their hearts for that boy or girl that we had our first crush on when we were both just innocent kids? (whoever they are, I feel sorry for them)
I will tell you this though...
...we parted ways socially when we were still in elementary school. Although we continued in the same schools evn through high school, we weren't close
at all.
But when my first valentine found me via facebook, I could tell her
exactly the
last time I'd seen her, where I saw her, and what we talked about, too.
And, Chanel? That last time we spoke was for about 5 minutes
over 30 years ago!
Given that I didn't really think it a big deal that we'd met way back then, I was rather shocked that I even remembered our brief encounter
in 1977.
I suspect what happened is that that 2nd grade editec (my inner child, I guess) tucked away that brief encounter because that child editec understood that the (then) college-age editec was too damned busy with his own frantic life at the time to think it mattered.
The older I get the more I realize that one's life wasn't about career, or posessions, it isn't about fame, or what you do, it's what happened between you and other people.
Sometimes touching base with who you are now demands that you touch base with who you were then.
