Random, unimportant, woe is me post.
Sep. 27th, 2011 04:45 pmUni didn’t end well for me (social rather than academic) so when I left I had a lot to forget and did so by distancing myself from everyone I went to uni with. This was pretty easy as I lived in the south and pretty much everyone else lived in the north; there was pretty much no social networking and very few people had mobiles (way to date yourself).
Then some years later Facebook came about and I ended up connecting with some old uni friend through that. By then the past was the past, and I could happily chat about old times and remember the good stuff – of which there was a lot. But, with the exception of my old house mate, I haven’t seen anyone from uni since I left. I have had more contact with my old head of school than any of my friends.
Sometimes, like today, I get incredibly sad about this. I have a couple of wonderful groups of friends now; I’m lucky and am not lacking in that dept at all. But I have just seen a group of old uni friends posting pics of themselves together on holiday and I got kinda sad that I will never have that with any of them. While I was busy removing myself, they were busy staying in touch, staying friends and building lives around each other rather than as far away as they could get (Africa for the first three months post uni I thought was pretty far…)
And I think it’s too late to do anything about it now.
Anyway, that is it for my random woe is me post.
Then some years later Facebook came about and I ended up connecting with some old uni friend through that. By then the past was the past, and I could happily chat about old times and remember the good stuff – of which there was a lot. But, with the exception of my old house mate, I haven’t seen anyone from uni since I left. I have had more contact with my old head of school than any of my friends.
Sometimes, like today, I get incredibly sad about this. I have a couple of wonderful groups of friends now; I’m lucky and am not lacking in that dept at all. But I have just seen a group of old uni friends posting pics of themselves together on holiday and I got kinda sad that I will never have that with any of them. While I was busy removing myself, they were busy staying in touch, staying friends and building lives around each other rather than as far away as they could get (Africa for the first three months post uni I thought was pretty far…)
And I think it’s too late to do anything about it now.
Anyway, that is it for my random woe is me post.