Time passes by

Its amazing what happens when you run into people you haven’t seen since high school.  I dropped by one of our local Starbucks yesterday afternoon to grab  coffee and get some work done between meetings.  Now I thought I recognized one of the baristas from somewhere, but by the end of our transaction I had put the peices together and knew who she was.  I had remembered an awkward moment in our past and didn’t really want to “rekindle” the friendship, so I said nothing and went on.  Well, just as I get my coffee, she puts the pieces together and confirms who I am and such and says “Do you remember me?”  There were a few events that she described to “help” me remember.  What do I do?  All I did was say, “Oh yeah, I think I remember.  Good to see you again.”  and left.  What a jerk!

Ever have those moments?  The ones that you look back and go “what the heck was I thinking?”  Kinda like many people look back to the hair they had in the 80′s.  It’s been on my mind now recently about what I am trying to do in life and how I want to impact people.  Was that the best way to respond?  If I truly care about people, why wouldn’t I want to show interest and find out what she has been up to the last decade.  Since I do frequent that location of Starbucks semi-regularily, I really hope that I have the opportunity to run into my high-school friend again – I’d really like the opportunity to actually be interested in what people have done and where they are going.  
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