When Childhood Friends Meet Again as Adults

I was opportune to actually spend a few hours with a childhood friend I did almost everything together with, a few years back. During our childhood, we would do "play house", attend parties together and do dance presentation, ate together when our parents are away and instruct us to eat at the same time, we grew up together.

I am sharing the things we did together during our childhood, to show how close we were but when we got the chance to spend time together as adults, it was different. Of course, it would be different because we've grown so much and went our different ways since a long while but one of the things that remained same was we knew us.

Not in the present but we knew how we grew up, we remembered our other friends and we caught up on the things we did when we had no worries about life and responsibilities, it was a beautiful moment as we recount on the past. But there was the distance that we could both feel as we talked, things have become more serious with us.

I don't say that in a negative way, it's a clear sign that we didn't waste away our lives until the moment we have together again. We have come to understand life better and are taking responsibilities of our actions unlike before when we easily blamed each other whenever we messed up. The moment taught changes again.

So even though the meetup was lively, we knew deep down how much have changed and that affected how quickly we reignited but couldn't keep it up through out our meeting time. So if I am placed in a room with all my childhood friends and classmates, I would first of all be grateful for such an opportunity, it is very rare.

But as rare and very unlikely as it already is, such a meetup will entail a lot of rarities especially in the aspect that we've grown and changed so much over the years. That will be very evident in our speeches, actions and thoughts while in the room. But from my very few experiences, I think it won't take long before the gathering gets lively.

I had the kind of childhood friends who were always playful but full of dreams back then, a gathering of us in a room would be reminiscing the things we've done together and it would be a lot of laughter. If there's one thing I've learned about the effect of laughter, it is that it makes people feel light and free even among strangers.

But there is a small doubt I have about the gathering in the aspect that it will feel unfamiliar at different times until we go our ways. It's understandable because even I have changed quite a lot to not be as fun and wild as I was when we were little so they could expect some level of vibe from me that I won't have to give.