– Colton

But yes, and it’s the same in the work world. You work with people for years, think you will never part company, and within 6 months of moving to another job/company, you realize you will never see 98% of those people again. That’s life. The rarity is, 40 years after high school graduation, still being really good friends with an old buddy (male or female). What you realize is, the quantity of time you spend together now isn’t as important as the quality of your friendship. The people in your SNU class were acquaintances, not friends. Thrown together by circumstance. When the common goal was gone, so was the bond. Now, Susan, there’s a friend! Where else you gonna find somebody that can go one-on-one with you in a conversation and wash your dirty socks too? Hang on to her.

You don’t have to publish this. I was just writing you back. Mom