March Madness bringing people together
I was on Facebook last week and found that I had a friend request from an old friend in college. His name is Derek. I hadn’t seen him or heard from him since the spring of 1994, the end of my freshman year, when he decided to leave PCC (I can’t think of why) to return to his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
Derek,Brandon, and Klassen, the Canadian were good friends in their sophmore and junior years at college,and Ridgeway (sorry, no facebook yet) and I came in as freshman. We all hung out together, and typically the older three made fun of Ridgeway and I. Despite their chiding, we all got along pretty well, and we all enjoyed one another’s company.
Some of our friendships lasted for years – Ridgeway and I continue to talk regularly to this day – and some of our friendships lasted for a bit after school. I actually lived with Brandon for a year or so after college, then I did something stupid to quickly end our close friendship. (possibly for another blog) Then there was Klassen, the Canadian, who left school in the middle of that year, and we emailed every once in a while from then until now, and Derek, who emailed me this week, via facebook, for the first time since 1994.
Crazy!
So apparently Derek has great timing because he gives us all god reason to email and talk and connect for a while when he gives us an invitation to join him on espn.com’s tournament challenge for March Madness. We all did, and so now we’ve all connected again. This was one of the things we did that first year we were all together in March of ’94, except the internet hadn’t quite caught on yet (though I still don’t know if it has at PCC) and we did it via the USA Today.
Currently I’m tied for first place along with Ridgeway, the irony being that we were the “loser freshman” back then. But the most important thing is the reconnection I’ve made once again with my old friends. A bit more weight. A bit more gray hair. But a lot more experiences to share.
Until next time…
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