Softball season starts!

Last night, we were at the mall getting needed items for today's softball practice. Mainly shoes and a helmet. I ran into my high school buddy Scott Matthews at Hibbet's in the mall. Tidbits are as follows:

Him: Hey man!
Me: Hey!
Him: What's going on?
Me: Just looking for softball equipment.
Him: Me too. I'm playing for First United Methodist. Who are you playing for?
Me: {strange look, followed by a couple seconds of silence}
Me: Oh, I'm not playing this year, my daugther is.

{follow introductions of family}

Me: We gotta find her some shoes
Him: Well the ones that have less color on them are cheaper!
Me: Now that's what I'm talking about!
Him: Remember, back in the day when we played there were only 2 colors, black or white!
Me: I know! It's amazing all the choices they have these days!

Anyways, we filmed his brother's wedding 2 weekends ago, and I got to thinking about how the vast majority of my high school friends have turned out to be pretty dang successful.

Scott's a doc, his bro Chris is a pharamacist, Kyla B is a doctor, Paul V is a doctor, Gene A is a doctor, Heather H is a doctor, Kam H is a successful engineer, Carrie B is a successful engineer, Leslie B is a successful engineer, Andy is marketing executive, Constantine graduated from the Naval academy, Brian C is an engineer, Brian S is an engineer, Phillip S is a one time brainaic turned famous guitarist, Lisa R is making it in the studio recording world, Jeremy N. is in grad school...

It's funny, I mean, we all pretty much knew we were all going to be very successful in whatever we chose to do, and now to see it all come to fruition some 15 years later is a really cool thing.

I guess for me, my junior and senior years were major pivot points in my life, for the better. I could not have asked for a better group of friends to share those 2 years of my life with. I am pretty sure they don't really know what a huge impact they had on my life. We had almost 300 in our graduating class. I was ranked 13th academically, with an overall GPA of 3.97. That should give you some idea of the competition among us at the top of the class. We worked our tails off, night and day!

In life though, that's what it is all about. Working and doing what you love to do at the same time.