Selfish Feel Good Post

I recently had the pleasure/privilege to go to two weddings of a couple of my great high school friends. The marriages were AWESOME, but selfishly the best part for me was to reunite with the friends you grew up with. As we walk through life and get older, you hopefully meet new people, make some new friends, etc, but something has to be said for the people that have known you since before South Park started. There's SO much love and comfort to be found within that group for me it's just amazing. It doesn't matter how much money you make, what you do for a living, how long it's been since you've seen them last, you just feel at home. I hope other people have been so blessed to have great people that have been with them since Kindergarten, or whenever that simply love you for who you are. Whenever I hear people complain about small town gossip I try to remember the beauty of living in a small town where people CARE enough to know how things are going. I was so honered when one of the parents simply said "You guys were the best class ever". I truly believed in those words in the sense that we've all had each other's back, or however you want to say it, since forever, and still do to this day. The other part of that was how close our parent's all became through our sports and other involvements. No parent ever worried when you went to someone's house because they knew each other and knew the care you would be provided with. We resisted drinking, etc all throughout high school for the most part, just a rare feat in WI. We accomplished great things in sports, but made great strides as people too. This is just shamelessly trying to express the overwhelmingly warm and comforting feeling that was the last two Saturday's. It's so hard to put in words. It's just a beautiful thing.