On Friday I attended a friends 40th birthday party which despite the amount of friends who turn 40 this year has been a fairly rare event. The theme was the 1980’s with music and dress in keeping with the era.
The evening went well with classic tunes at volume 11, drinks flowing and terrible dancing, but the thing that struck me the most was when people you’ve not seen for 24 years make an appearance. School friends that you were with every single day and couldn’t be without had for some reason disappeared into time and now they appear looking a little older but somehow the same people. They all have a story to tell about the last 20 or so years without you and the adventures each had were not too dissimilar to each other. Job, kids, home etc…
Within an hour or so it was like they had stepped out of the room at the school disco and just returned. We picked up where we left off and it was great. I hope to see more of them now and will fight the mysteries of time not to lose touch again.
M