College is nearing an end. 2 months left. What have we learned? Hopefully a good amount from our respective fields. Besides that. I think we have learned our group has potential to stick together throughout the changing times.
This St. Patrick's Day celebration at Dave&Busters was very fun and entertaining. Reflecting on the conversations I really started noticing the future looming on the horizon. Talk of finding new jobs, careers, buying cars, moving out, the future is here. I always considered 2008 the year of change. Not because of Obama, but because we were entering a new world. College. The group was equally divided among different schools. I was worried everyone would drift apart. How can people stay together when they go from seeing each other 5 days a week to inconsistency? Well I was wrong. Our group's strength never vanquished and we held together. As college progressed there were less and less hangouts, especially with James going abroad and my Finance Association/FDIC duties. But we made it work.
However, we have entered a new year of change, 2012. Hopefully not the end of the world change, but change nonetheless. We are going to be even further removed from our lives and plunged into even greater inconsistency. Where will we all get jobs? Move to? What will our schedules be like then? Marriage!? Who knows when and where, but it will happen soon.
So the question now is, will the group survive? And if so, for how long? Will we still hangout when I am Chairman of the Federal Reserve?
Our frequency of hangouts may dwindle in the coming years. Our lives will most certainly get busier and busier. But in my opinion, I don't think there is anything that could stop the group now. We are too strong, and we can make it through anything. I relish the day when we all turn 65 and climb Half Dome for the 40th time. Our legs may be beyond repair, but our laughter will live on.
In short, if this 2012 year of change divides us even further apart I will be sad. However, I find comfort in the fact that group has made it this long, and shows no sign of stopping.
May God guide us in our quest.
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Half Dome for the 40th time?! My goodness. I think I've done it...3 times? So only 37 more? Good grief.
ReplyDeleteGreat post though, John. I can't believe college is almost over! I don't think it's unlikely that the group will manage to stick together. Let's hope your parents don't remodel the garage though.
Wait, you don't think it's unlikely.... so you DO think it's likely that we will stick together, as in you think we won't fall apart....as in FRIENDS FOREVER, right?
ReplyDeleteBecause that's what I think! We're locked in at this point, until death do us part.