Passerbys

This weekend I had a couple of weddings to go to. It seems like all I have done for the past month or two has been go to weddings and bachelor parties and while on the surface it may seem stressful and taxing it has actually been great. One thing about weddings is as you are getting ready, picking up your suit, driving to the location and so on and so forth you are thinking when is this gonna be over, I got dressed up for this? But, weddings are always a lot more fun than you can ever prepare for. I do not know what it is, I could be sappy and say that it is being the presence of two people in love on their most special day and perhaps that is a party of it but to me its about an abundance of positivity and old friends and new getting together for a single purpose. I often think about how many people in life I was close to and how I have lost touch with them. It is often people that you worked with or had classes with and while you were close, you were never really great friends so as you each went your separate ways and while you have great memories they are softened by the sadness that you may never see that person again. Facebook has made that whole process of reconnecting alot easier but it is still a little odd. The reason I am talking about weddings and friends from years past is because of a wedding I recently went to for a girl that I used to work with. I got to the wedding and was shocked to find that her cousin was a guy who I knew years ago and had worked with and while we were friends, played poker together and would hang out from time to time, we eventually just went our own way without any goodbyes or talk to you laters. The funny thing is that events would happen that would remind me of this guy and I would always be a bit sad that perhaps I would never see or talk to him again. So, seeing him at this wedding was serendipidous and made it a lot of fun. I think we all have a few people that we were once pseudo-friends with and may never see again and I hope that facebook and the internet, for all its flaws and misguided intentions helps those re-connections happen.