Old Men

 One of the most interesting things I've experienced the last couple of years has been linking up with old acquaintances, friends and getting there perspectives on things that have happened in the past. I am always amazed at how different my memory of how things seem to me were different to how other people's perceive the same event. The constant reader will remember about the event about me getting beaten up in the sixth grade by my music teacher while I was sitting behind the piano in music class. The individual sitting right next to me doesn't remember that event at all all other folks I've talked to clearly remember the incident and have indicated they would never ever forget it because the event seem to be so violent at the time. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised when my tablet rattled this afternoon or more accurately my cell phone also begin reading at the same time it was an old friend of mine I mean a really old friend of mine maybe 60 years a friend. Gregory or better known as grog.

I've been trying to call Grog ever since I got a message from his little brother giving me the information that Greg was fine and doing well in Southern California in the Los Angeles area. I was concerned because it's also in the same area as the conflagration of the wildfires. The brother gave me grog's address that he would be excited to hear from me. I didn't necessarily believe that but now I was in the position where I had to call and I was going to but Grog fixed that problem by calling himself, first. First and foremost Grog is fine the fire has missed him and his family but not by much. He does not sound the way that I thought he would sound but it definitely is grog. We had a good conversation. I think I hesitated in calling him because he has done so much better in life than I have at least from a success orientation. He is actually the president of a major check company, I'm not sure what that is except for they do a lot of Financial Security type work and it's been very successful. Of course he's my age so he's kind of retired but he's got everything set up so he continues to work but not very much and has income flows from four or five different areas from the way the corporation was set up and how it's ending up. He's no longer the main controller the operation, although he is actually, but on paper he is not and he's able to do things he wants to with his life which I think is totally cool. We talked about things that old men talk about mainly things we did together growing up and we did a lot of things together I'm Amazed. But there is three of us that sort of hung together from about first grade on up actually. We went to the same church and we hung out together. A large part of the call was us validating each other that the stupid things that we did together we're actually done and that we can substantiate all of the events we've talked about to our family and friends. It was a grand time to be alive a great part of this time is even before adolescence in the great accident after 45 minutes we ended the call. Grog is very conservative quite a bit different than me in a lot of ways but quite similar at the same time. We committed to miet up with each other this coming summer. He has family in this area and we decided that we will meet sometime during the warm season at the park across the way from where I live. It should be a grand time of old men reliving their past….