June 23, 2003

Older and Far Away
Posted by jbutler@bostonworks.com">Jason Butler at 1:46 PM -

Sometime this morning, between the college nostalgia and the paternity anticipation posts, I came across fellow Syracuse alum Amy's post about her reunion with her early-twenties, post-college friends.

This weekend I also had a reunion with a group of friends from "back in the day"... that glorious early 20's, just finished college time. You have a job, and thus real money for the first time, but most likely you don't have much responsiblity so you can get away with going out and drinking massive amounts pretty regularly. ... This weekend, I look around the table in the bar/restaurant located within our old stomping grounds. We discuss things like home purchases and 401(k)'s and the job market. I see people I don't know. I see an infant at the table with us (his parents having made the hour long trip to the big bad city) and I wonder: what happened? When did we become so uncool? And then the baby's father says: remember that time during a blizzard, the T wasn't running, this place was packed and we just sat in here and drank all day... Someone else jumps in: or the time that.... and we are off. And I realize there is a little part of us that will always stay young and cool.

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