Entry for September 16, 2007

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Kind Act Count to Date: 61
Day 16 Thanks to your Kind Acts today, dogs have been walked, churchgoers have been allowed to leave a carpark without obstruction and early birthday cards have been sent to cantankerous and undeserving recipients. For my part I have sent a little gift to a friend.
If you've read the past few entries, you'll know that some old friends of mine are organising a bit of a re-union, and it's got me in reflective mood. There's ten or eleven of us going to meet up, When I was 17 I'd count every one of them as a really close friend - we have drunkenly gobbled pizza together, we lusted unsuccessfully after the same sixth year girls, and we have dogged school together to watch dodgy videos.
In spite of these bonds that once made us inseperable, I've completely lost touch with more than half of them over the years. No fall outs, no arguments; just a gradual drifting apart as we went separate ways through university days and beyond. It seems a bit of a shame when you think about it. I mean there are people in my address book that I actively dislike - and I send them Christmas cards. There is at least one person in there that I am trying to encourage to believe that I am dead so that they don't invite me out to dinner. How did these people displace real friends over the years?
None of the people in my address book truly understand what it was like to head bang at the Park Lane disco or what a Portlands Green Monster tasted like. Damn it, I bet not one of them knows the lyrics to Script for a jester's Tear. And let's face it, that (along with knowing how to tie a Half Windsor) is the mark of a civilised man.
How did this happen?