The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

This Time

This one's for Laura, though it's fairly doubtful she'll ever know.

To explain for the rest of you, I got a call last night, to the effect of "Yeah, Laura's leaving! The going away party is tonight! Come!" Okie, I'm there.

I won't bore you with the conversation. It wasn't much, as conversation, though it's probably some of the best conversation I've had with them in quite some time. The point, such as it is, is that life is slowly going by. Five years ago, and the anniversary was about a month ago, I was a very shy, rather frightened college freshman wondering how one went about meeting people in this strange new world. Nothing to it, really. Roomie introduced me to the guy down the hall, Matt, who was like "Yeah. Some of us are going to go up to 4th and play some cards and games later. You can come if you like."

So I did. It turned out to be the wisest decision I made that year, one of the wisest I've made to date, probably. See, I met most of my college friends that night. Matt, Tali, Laura. Jennifer was there, I think. Four or five others who moved on at the end of the year. I met Jesse and Carla later, but for the most part, I made my friends that night.

Fast forward five years. Matt graduated my second year, and dropped off the planet. Carla disappeared after freshman year. Jennifer I haven't heard from in about a year. Jesse graduated last year, and I've been negligent about keeping in touch, as has he. And now Laura's going to Arizona. It may well be that I'll never see her again. Tali and I graduate at the end of the year. Where we end up from there, who knows? But the group is slowly fading. And that's sad.

But it's been a lot of fun.

Posted by Dwip at October 30, 2003 3:02 PM