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Is change.
People come and go – in life, and at work. Its usually tough to accept the fact that people move on, either by choice or necessity.
I was chatting with a coworker yesterday about the friends you make and the inevitability that one day something in their lives change and you fall out of touch. This has happened to me a lot. Most of my friends from childhood went on to other colleges, or now live on the east coast. That’s one nice thing about Facebook — that you can keep in touch or even rekindle those old relationships.
Same thing with work. For 7 years I worked with the same two guys. I have talked about it on my blog a lot. Now we’re all in the same town, but working at different jobs. I still think about them all the time – often times reminiscing about old times and how things used to be.
I don’t think the magic is there to recapture though. Those relationships grew under certain, unique and irreplaceable circumstances. They were the product of a certain dynamic environment. Could I go back to Tampa and expect friends from grade school to be exactly as they were?
Times change I guess.
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1 comment
Cori Marx says:
Jan 17, 2010
Will,
I remembered reading this post so long ago and thinking how sad it was – for those friends – and how lucky we (me) were to have you at OMA. We are around coworkers more than our “loved” ones, so finding ones you enjoy makes work about 90% better. For me, working with you made me feel smarter, funnier, like I was a better designer, and like I had someone to help – even if it was to find an image, demystify a program, explaining what the heck was happening on TrueBlood or not crawling under the table when I customize/send back all my lunch orders. All the things a good friend does, few that you can hope for in a mere coworker. I hope we can maintain some of our friendship – after all, Spark is our main form of communication – but I do agree with your post – there is magic in being thrown together under certain circumstances that is hard to keep up with a keyboard.
If one of your future co-workers is smart enough to read your blog – I hope they realize just how lucky they are – and how lucky I know I was.
Go forth and conquer William – I can’t wait to read all about it!