Cycles

Well, that ended 2 days of an utter waste of time.

I was in camp these 2 days for some sort of preparatory briefing. Nothing's new; the inefficiency will always be there. The sub-standards of professionalism and majority of generally disinterested people are traits already accepted as the norm. But despite all that, what really made this a less dreadful experience was the people I met. It was an excellent time for all of us to meet the people whom we used to share our time in camp with. And I'm glad that we had been able to take time off our personal schedule (ok not really; it's mandatory) to spend it with some of the people we have lost touch with.

People may come and go in our lives, but they are still people who have been part of our lives, a piece in our puzzle, and an influence to us. And when we meet these people, they just fit so naturally back into the puzzle. I think we all need this. For the next 10 years, we will watch each other grow, and some people might not always be around, but a yearly affair like this will serve as a cohesion for all of us and memories for the rest of our lives.