Re-unions

Yesterday, I met up with two old friends. I haven't see the one for 12 years and the other for 7 years. All of us are 31.

It was a good evening, full of catching up on the latest gossip and what we had all been up to over the years. Reminding each other of the things of our youth, which we had forgotten - intentionally or otherwise.

You often imagine that re-unions are for people in thir 60's, where the main topic of conversation is the list of people who had died. It was a very sobering experience to be having a re-union at 31, and to be discussing people from school and college who had died. Between the three of us, I think the total number of our contemporaries who had passed away was 5. Often these deaths were sudden - and not always the result of an accident. It seems that the invincibility of youth is over as we face our own mortality head on.

So we raise a glass to those who have gone before us, and be thankful that we are still here - and make a promise to live life to the full every day.