Pages From The Past

I was cleaning the office recently, and found a file folder labeled Absent Friends. In it, I found an old Polaroid of myself dressed up like Dick Tracy from the summer of 1990. It's amazing to me what I can find in all of these pages from the past. I found a few letters from some old friends, some of whom I keep in close contact, and others who have drifted apart. In this day and age, electronic forms of communication have taken over, and letters are somehow relegated to a world that is disappearing.

It's really ironic that I'm the one yearning for the old-fashioned letters and paper. I've always been the one forcibly shoving my colleagues and friends (young and old) into the twenty-first century with e-mail, social networking, and other forms of electronics, communications, and gadgetry. There's something about letters that seem to have a personal touch that is lost in the electronic age.

In order to keep up with the times, I'm in the process of scanning some of my old photographs. The letters played a part in helping me piece together the timing of some of the pictures. Believe it or not, I was never good at keeping records or journals before I started blogging. So, I continue to look through my files and catch some of those pages from the past. Maybe I'll find a few more pictures of several more absent friends and reminisce about the old days. It's a good thing that we just had a long weekend, because nostalgia can take a lot out of you. It's been an interesting journey into the past this weekend. It is getting late, so maybe I'll try again . . . tomorrow.

See ya.