College Reunions V/s Facebook!
Staying in touch has always been a choice. Either you said yes to that and connected with your old pals regularly, or you said no and moved on to make new friends. But there is always that thought in your mind that makes you wait for the college reunion to happen each year. It's like you subscribed to these invites when you walked out of those college corridors. College friends have a strange presence in your life, though you may not see them or talk to them for years. A chance sight of a balding man on the road suddenly brings about the recollection that this is the guy who paid for your food when you ran short of dough in your sophomore year.
There is another side to this. With increased tools at your disposal to keep in touch, the pull of college reunions are no longer what they used to be. Take for example, my colleague Donna. She says, "Why do I need to go to college to meet old pals? I can do that through Facebook!" Now I think she's got a point there. With social networks, you can keep in touch with your old friends throughout the year. You can know the crests and troughs of their lives, you can see pictures of how they evolved from gawky twenty-somethings to mature parents. It's all there for you to explore.
So the question is, should you take up that invitation from the college and be there? Or are you content keeping in touch with your friends via networking tools? It's true that we are constantly running short of time, so that college trip might well be a little heavy on your work schedule. But, at the same time, a trip to the campus which stood witness to the making of the person you are now, is time well invested. What would you rather do, be there at college reunions or stay in touch via Facebook?
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4 comments:
always looking forward to school re-unions.. :)
hopefully will b the same abt colleges..
there is a great difference between sending a scrap or writing on the wall and meeting face to face with your friends, seeing a smile form on their face...
there is definitely a great diff..
i meet my old school friends online, but that doesnt make me want to miss a chance to meet them.
but ofcourse there is the problem of time, but some things are worth doing. :)
I missed all the school reunions parties,bashes till now.
and life aint that bad.
orkut/etc is fine.
meetin old friends wont make us young again.
memories are to be cherished and remembered. probably not to be done again.
meetin old friends wont make us young again.
Interestingly mY case is a little diferent!
I still stay just in front of the kintergarden and my skool which took care of me for 14 years.
So i wont miss the edifice for quite sometym,but yes MY SKOOL s not the same widout ma frenz and ppl of my times anymore.Our toPics of discussions,littl things we were interested in donot anymore reverberate among the skoolkids who are studying in the same skool i learned in.
tHOSE LONG choridoors nd clasrooms nstaffrooms nd ......watnot... still remain places we yearn to hang around....however old we grow.
soon col too shall turn in to one beautiful string of memory....which no no: of digital images on a pendrive can cache!!!
I shall always look forward to reunions ,not because i shall find 1 greyhair less but i shall see ma heart go light,lively nd young....!
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