Creeva’s World 2.0

The pic­ture above is me, it’s over three decades old.   Some­times that seems like a lot of time that has gone by.  Other times it seems that no time at all has passed.   I can say I still feel like I am in my early twen­ties, but I think that is what most peo­ple in my shoes feel.

Over the week­end I sat down and talked with some peo­ple I hadn’t seen in years.   Some of them have been through divorces.   Some of them have chil­dren, and at least one has ten year old daugh­ter that I knew both the par­ents before tehy knew each other.  When you start get­ting to this level of dis­cus­sion, though none of us are what you would con­sider nor­mal fam­ily types, you need to look back an assess the situation.

My wife and I were one of the first in our nor­mal group of friends that got mar­ried.   That seemed weird to most of our friends back then.  I think part of that was due to the fact that they were all younger then us.  To see how every­one had changed, how their lives have come together or fallen apart was odd.   In alot of ways we are still the same, we are com­pletely dif­fer­ent peo­ple now in the dynam­ics that brought us together.  We are no longer the tight knit group we once seemed to be.   It’s a bit more organic now that we’ve each gone our own paths.    There isn’t a loss of friend­ships, but the ties that bound us together have greatly loos­ened.   Our daily activ­i­ties that once was all of us together no longer exists.   We each have our own lives, our own thoughts, our own posi­tions and friends out­side of the circle.

We still act like chil­dren in our hearts though and that is what is impor­tant.   To every­one I saw over the week­end — let’s do it again next year.