Ever think about how many people you've known? We all have our circles of friends, acquaintances, people we bump into every day or make it a point to catch up with every week. These people are going in and coming out of a revolving door, though. Very few of them remain in your life for more than a phase. Usually you remember your real friends and think about them from time to time, but what about all those other people, the ones you never really got CLOSE to?
Every kid I ate lunch with in high school, but never hung out with on the weekends; all those crazy punks from West Lafayette my band used to fuck shit up with that one year, before we fell out of touch with 'em; every dude in every shitty band I've ever spent an evening with; friends of friends, friends of girlfriends, etc. These are people that used to be recurring characters and guest stars in various episodes of the TV show that is my life; episodes that ended seasons ago. People I never even think about now... it's almost like they don't exist any more.
But they DO still exist. Every now and then I'll see a photo of someone online, or I'll see one of them in person and have one of those "HOLY SHIT... THAT GUY!" moments, and think back to the time when our lives intersected. All those people, they're still here, living their lives. Some of them got jobs, some of them got married, a lot of them moved away. But they're all out there, somewhere, doing something right now. I wonder if any of them ever think of me the same way?
Actually some of them are probably dead. Whoa.
That shit is weird to think about.
-Anthony
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