Different Mindsets I Suppose

My last post was an ode to my college house, and my college years still occupy a significant portion of my thoughts.

Earlier this week I met up with a college acquaintance for a drink and to catch up on life. we were talking a bit about Ann Arbor and what a great town it is. I asked him if he ever gets back to campus. He said he visited once a few years after graduation and hasn't been back in 15 years. I then asked him if he kept in touch with any of our mutual college friends. He said he hasn't talked to anyone from Michigan since he graduated. I was flabbergasted.

For me, college was such a formative and important time in my life that I'll cherish forever. For him, it was just 4 years of something he had to go through and walked away after graduation and never really looked back. Sometimes I wish i could be like him and not carry around this nagging nostalgia for those years, but then I shudder at the thought of just moving through life without the shared experiences to relive with life-long friends until we can't remember them anymore. What a pity that would be.