A Good Time

Last night I met some good old former colleagues from a school I previously worked for. It was a simple gathering around a few drinks and the time tested karaoke session, it doesn't fail to conjure fun and always, always, makes for gatherings that are laid back and relaxing.

I miss my former colleagues. I think what makes for a truly satisfying work environment is not the money, rather, it is the people you work with. When one enjoys the people around you, all challenges that come your way is a mere anecdote worthy to be immortalized in the recesses of our personal memories. Work then becomes a journey and not a tedious endeavor to be turned over as the day winds up.

We met people by accident. But when we do find people who are attuned to the beauty of the human experience, who in many ways reflect your one quirks, who accept your own idiosyncracies, then you find your place in the pantheon of friendships. It is, a gold mine stumbled upon.

So it goes that the only way never to regret things is to enjoy things while it lasts. To savor the moment and to share it with others. Time moves and does not look back, we look back. And those moments gone by are nothing but mere blips in the consciousness of man, eternally stored in the memories of our own human experiences.

A good time is a time spent with the people who touched your life, and who continues to do so, for in those moments shared and lived, they have made us a lot more better and a lot less cynical that life is what indeed we make of it.