Have you ever reconnected with a friend from years gone by? So, think about that and then ponder what has happened in your life since you spoke to that person last. Whoa. . . I caught myself thinking about that same subject recently as I reconnected with a friend from my first attempt at college, back in 1982, or so. I believe the last time I spoke to her I was living in Gainesville, GA, and that was 1985(?).
Okay, so that was 24 years ago. Or had I joined the Air Force? I remember talking to her and she was intending on joining the Air Force herself, so maybe it was 22 or 23 years ago. However, that is not the point, the point here is, what has happened in my life in the last 22 years? Again, whoa . . . I joined the Air Force active duty, right out of being in the Marine Corps Reserve. I spent 9 years in the Air Force and moved to Oklahoma. I have been around the world (not as many places as some, but then my job was focused on a single Air Force base, mainly), never stationed there, mind you, just visited.
Heck, even after the Air Force, I have worked several jobs from telephone installer, to computer repair dude and even back into retail for several years working at an office supply chain. Been back to school and now have a job that has me travelling all over the country installing software.
We usually focus on the job at hand, and keep our ‘noses to the grind-stone’, as the saying goes. Maybe it is the last vestiges of a mid-life crisis, but at nearly half a century of years, when you look back it is like climbing a shear face cliff and looking back down from the top to realize just how far you have come, in what seems to be an incredible short amount of time. Of course at the time it seemed like the longest day of your life, but such is life, eh?
Oh well, back to pondering, Pinky.