{"id":99,"date":"2008-09-19T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-09-21T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T02:18:27","slug":"99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"1997, not a bad year…"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

So many people have contacted me through Facebook lately.\u00a0 Its strange to relive some of that; sometimes to be forced to.\u00a0 Tessa<\/a> wrote me recently.\u00a0 I lived with her for a bit at Ein Gedi…in 1997 I think it was.<\/p>\n\t

Here is what she said:<\/p>\n\t

so i have been thnking a lot lately bout ein gedi etc, it was a long time ago now!! gemm has beautifaul photos of kids, have you children yet?? life in uk, ok, but not spent much of my “adult” life here. where are you now? how do you remember those days? take care tessaxx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t

My response:<\/p>\n\t

Tessa,
\nHa!\u00a0 Feeling a little nostalgic lately?<\/p>\n\t

Hmm…”How do I remember those days?”<\/p>\n\t

I guess I don’t really for the most part (except when you send me an email and it makes me think about it).\u00a0 Those years seem disconnected from my current life, like they don’t apply.\u00a0 Its almost like I disappeared for 5 years or so….on another planet.<\/p>\n\t

Every once in a while I’ll see something on TV, and think “I was there once; there is a great restaurant I ate at just around the corner”, but it seems very distant.<\/p>\n\t

The memories are nice, but they are also hard to live with since life will never be as new and exciting as those years were.\u00a0 You are only young and conquer the world once.\u00a0 I’ve come to accept that.<\/p>\n\t

I live in Atlanta, GA.\u00a0 I play tennis.\u00a0 I like to drink fancy beers.\u00a0 I am an HR Consultant.\u00a0 I own a house, and hang out with my friends.\u00a0 I love my mom and my sister; don’t get along so well with my dad.\u00a0 I complain and get sad sometimes, but I’m very fortunate.<\/p>\n\t

That’s it.\u00a0 The story there doesn’t really include “and for 5 years I hit 30+ countries, learned to speak another language, sailed the Mediterranean, saw the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, Petra, Machu Picchu, trekked the Himalaya, rode camels in the Sahara, blah, blah, blah, etc.”\u00a0 Those things are interesting bar stories and come up sometimes, but it just doesn’t apply to most things I do.<\/p>\n\t

I love those years…in a crazy way.\u00a0 Its something no one can take away and it will always make me a little special.\u00a0 If I had worked those years like my friends, I would have a little more money now; I might be married, but I would never have ice climbed on a glacier in Patagonia.<\/p>\n\t

And yes…Gemma’s kids are cute, and no, I don’t have any kids.\u00a0 I’m not married.<\/p>\n\t

Thanks for the nostalgia,<\/p>\n\t

Elliott<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t

Oh well.\u00a0 I think I’ll go back to my wine and Monday nights on HDNet.<\/p>\n\t

……………………….To understand me, you must understand this.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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