birthdays

First of all, Happy Birthday shout-out to three people: my mom, Lee-wen, and Kyung!  Hope you all are having a good day, despite the falling snow. 

As I’m writing this, I’m listening to nice arrangement of a piece by Ravel played by the Turtle Island String Quartet.  The melody is still puzzlingly familiar, but I’ve given up the urge to figure out the name of the actual piece.  I’m also recovering from a busy social weekend.  On Saturday, I met up with Megan and her friends Morgan and AJ, whom I went to high school with and vaguely remember.  But it’s so nice to know that the past doesn’t matter on how you think of them in the present moment.  It kind of makes me wonder what were they like in high school and why didn’t I get to know them back then?  AJ is such a sweet, down-to-earth guy with lots of funny stories.  It seems that since high school we’ve all experienced a lot of things and went different directions, but in a general sense, we’re all at the same points of our lives, working and being in relationships and marriage, etc.  Essentially, we are all going through the same things in our adult lives and it’s good to reconnect every now and then to find ourselves to be all on the same level.