Sad Dream

 Dear Barry,

  I woke up from a strange dream this morning. Nothing strange occurred but it was just that it was so vivid and had many of our high school classmates in it. Some of whom I haven't seen for nearly twenty years. Strangely, I woke up sad. You know very well that I was eager to get out of high school and don't consider them my glory days(hopefully that's some time in the future;)) so I couldn't exactly pinpoint why I was sad.

Then it occurred to me: I never really said goodbye to many of them. Of course, I kept in touch with you and Chip but other than that kids we grew up with just disappeared from our lives. Some with promises of getting together in the future and some with nary a thought. But over time, they all fell out of our lives 

You will be the first to remind me how I didn't get along with plenty of them. However, I did with many, but they still fell away. Yes of course, some of them I have run into over the years. And often produces this same feeling. Like we're trying to hold on to the pieces of our friendship but there are fewer and fewer every year we've lived our own lives apart. It just leaves this feeling not quite of sadness but just incompleteness. I guess that's the way life is. People come in and out of our lives and we don't always get to get that sense of closure like I've grown accustomed to in books. Guess life sometimes differs, huh?

Does make me want to do what I need in order to keep those people in my life I value, close, even if only in mind.

Not sure why I'm telling you all this except to maybe thank you for staying in my life all these years. I appreciate you and look forward to seeing you again 

Until next time, 

Danny

PS- As always a few new photos of the family:)