Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:43 am
Man, Buddies are important.
My mother used to tell me that you only make a handful of REAL friends in life. In this respect I have been blessed. I can honestly count about 25-30 that are ALL WEATHER FRIENDS. Maybe it is due to my Army experiences and such. I have had friends come to my aid from half a world away, just amazing and quite wonderful. Losing frineds is always a sad, and forgive me, personnaly selfish thing, as we all want to keep them with us for the duration of our lives.
One thing to note, we all tend to get clique'ish when it comes to friends and tend to keep core groups due to our own proclevities for "sameness" or status quo" in human groups , to wit people don't like changes in the group. I have been blessed in overlooking this tendency by accepting younger generations into my circle of friends most of the time. This is deffinitely due to having deal with younger folks as a military old fart during my career in the infantry.
I say this because clubs, fraternities, and other social organizations need new blood to keep going. This as you all know, is just a fact of life. When we stop recruiting new people, organizations wither away and die. This fact, and that life takes us away from certain pursuits and sometimes does not allow us to go back to those pursuits. But, by starting an organization, such as a dive club, if the core goals and joys of a social group are solid and of interest to many, you can return to a group years later, possibly an organization you help found, and find the same zeal and love of a common interest still going strong, as well as be readily accepted back into that group as if time stood still, even though all new people are making up the core group. I guess I am just saying that whether old memories and experiences or new ones, it is good to be able to "come home" to people who understand you. It is great to have friends!
"Where'd ya get that ol' thang, don't cha' know them thare things ill kill ya!"
Live From the Red Sea,
Russ