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November 04, 2004
Hypocrites!
I've been hesitating to make this post as I do try to avoid posting personal notes, but the pieces have been nagging at me for a few weeks now.
The title pretty much sums up the situation for me at the moment. Recently a friend of mine had asked for a bit of advice on some aspect of their romantic life. The short of the conversation revolved around if they should be getting back in touch this person after an ugly fight between the two. I don't really know the estranged partner at all, but my general belief was if you wanted restore the relationship one party has to initiate the communication. After a bit more discussion it was decided that the relationship really was worth salvaging. After a bit more discussion it turns out that I am a victim of not following my own advice. Oddly enough, it seems that when asked for opinions, I can find my own counter-points in myself to each of my opinions.
The other odd tidbit of news recently arrived in my US postal mailbox. Not something I typically use to receive much news (beyond the IEEE or ACM subscriptions, or various magazines). A letter arrived announcing the 10 year reunion of my high school class. Ron and I had discussed this a few years ago when we realized we had known each other for almost 16 years, and both generally agreed it wasn't going to happen for a few reasons. The first has been a historical precedent set by the school. Essentially the school is so small that instead of having singular class reunions they hold entire school reunions, mixing those from recent years on back to as far as the former classmates may be living. These mini-reunions happen about twice a year and none as of yet have been graced by my attendance. I don't see why a class specific version should be any different. The second reason Ron and I came up with is that essentially we've kept in touch with everyone we wanted to from high school. Yeah there are one or two people, but they get outweighed by having to deal with many of the same characters again. There were reasons I didn't associate with many of them in the first place, and I'm willing to bet many of them haven't changed at all. Does anyone ever goto a high school reunion to have fun, or is mostly to re-affirm your self-esteem and place against others?
Posted by Dan at November 4, 2004 12:57 AM