25 years in the blink of an eye

I recently had the great privilege of meeting up with a friend with whom I shared the travails of high school - 25 years ago! We had not seen each other since the last day of high school. We had not, until very recently, communicated with each other since that day, so rolling in to her driveway on a wintery July morning was a slightly daunting experience.What do you say when someone asks you, "What have you been up to?" and they are referring to 25 years of being "up to" stuff? Where do you start? And more importantly, when do you finish?Over the course of a few hours, a few glasses of wine and a lovely riverside picnic, we talked about careers, study, relationships, children, travel and the various doings of other high school friends, all the while marveling at how time flies and how steadfast some things truly are.Due to our careers taking us in very different directions and living on different continents we may not see each other again for a while, but if we were able to step right back in to being friends after 25 years, then I don't think that is going to be a problem. 

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