Gerlando

recently i heard form gerlando that his company got bought out by Siebel and that now he works somewhere near me. we’ve been meaning to meet up for lunch and whatnot, but i never really realized just how close he works, it turns out that his company is located only like 3 blocks away from mine. you can see our building from his. how crazy is that?

anyways, we kicked it today at the starbucks by work. it’s so weird to think of how different our lives are now. just like 4 years ago we were both doing pretty much the same thing: hanging out, going to bars, partying and whatever. 4 years later i’m still sorta doing the same shit in some ways. in the mean time, gerlando’s gotten married, bought a house, and had 2 children. while i get bummed that i don’t have enough free time to hang out, he’s bummed that he doesn’t have enough time to play with his kids.

i swear, sometimes i feel like life is on fastforward. i remember thinking “dayum, am i really old enough to have friends who are married?” and then “dayum, am i really old enough to have friends who have kids?”. as life goes on i guess i’m gonna have more and more of these moments. those “holy shit, how the fuck old am i and is this really my life?” moments. heh, and one of the biggest signs of not being young anymore…. is complaining about not being young anymore. i used to watch sit-coms and think “what’s up w/ old people always whining about being old, talking about ‘back in their day’.. . can’t they just suck it up and deal w/ their shit?!” and now i’m one of them.

i’m definitely not in a hurry to “grow up” any more than i already have. but at the same time, life is all about give and take. as time passes you lose some good stuff, but gain stuff too. i wouldn’t trade who i am now to be who i was before, and so i assume that when i get older i hopefully will be glad to be at whatever stage in life i am at that point.

-v