Reunion

I've been able to spend time with friends I grew up and went to high school with lately, after all having been off doing our own things in different places during college and after. There's something lovely and refreshing about getting together with these people you've known so long, and can feel at ease with; after the awkwardness of adolescence, and any pretenses of college, people seem to be settling into themselves, finding who they really want to be and what they want to do (at least for now). I went back to my hometown to see my high-school choir's annual winter concert for the first time since my freshman year in college, and the stars aligned so that a few alumni from our year had a bit of a reunion. There were all sorts of hilarious extraneous characters from our choir and high school career, also, but seeing these people, with whom you were very close to as different, more awkward and higher-energy versions of yourself, was really rewarding. Lately I've been through a lot of change, and have been ready to embrace more change in my life (which, if you know me, may seem out of character), but this was a reminder of how important, at least to me, balancing the new/fresh/exciting with the classic, comfortable and true things and people in your life, is. So to those I may have fallen out of contact with over the years....