I don't know what hit me today (well, nostalgia, but I have no idea why) and so I found an old address book from high school > first semester of college and started googling people. Amazing! One is a theatre director in Seattle, another going towards her MBA, one in a band with her husband, and the list goes on. My old roommate has her own dance company in Canada with another woman. I'm in awe of these outstanding people! I emailed just a couple of them... the ones I had an actual connection with at some point instead of the ones "hey, I knew you then and yeah, we were friendly, but we really weren't *that* close, I guess, but hey, how are you?!" In a way, I feel like some of these people have come so far in life and made a name for themselves while I feel like I haven't and am the same ol' me. Of course, then I really think about who I was then and know that that's not true. I'm sure they probably feel the same way, too. Or, perhaps, they had aspiration and knew that's where they'd end up or where they'd want to end up. It humanizes everyone, if you think about it...