Just How Easy it is to Lose Good Friends
Well the prompt for this blog post couldn't have came at a better time. Back when we went to school and had actual club activities, I can't help but reminisce about my time on Troy's Robotics team. I had made lots of good friends on the team, but more so, I had made a lot of good friends on other teams. We'd occasionally chat about how progress on each of our robots were coming along or rant about the stupid bureaucracy that comes with doing robotics. In any case, with not having competitions this year nor the year before because of the coronavirus (side not I cannot stand hearing COVID or coronavirus or the other names that've been given to it, it's like listening to a broken record at this point) its been a long time since we've seen each other in person.
As luck would have it a few nights ago I was playing in a League of Legends (don't come at me) tournament with a friend; both of us invited some of our friends who are going to Duke and Carnegie Mellon to all play together. As I was being introduced to the prefrosh at Duke who my friend had invited, I realized that I had known one of them for the last 3 years. Because of that me and her got back in touch and we got back to talking as if no time had passed.
What's really bothering me is that how many people have I lost contact with? Whether it be through summer camps, or math competitions, or research conferences, how many good friends have I missed out on? Obviously, we share a passion for similar things so it's really such a shame that it took a random event to get back into contact. Is this a reality of life, or is this just something I have to work on for the future?
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