I almost lapsed into a moment of insanity today when I surfed to Friends United and thought, “It would be fun to find out what some of my old school chums are up to nowadays.”

I found myself on this site partially because Jo is doing something similar with a Swedish version, and partially because I met another Englishman at my school recently, who mentioned he’d joined and, to his surprise, he’d found a couple of his buddies living in Sweden.

What led me to actually consider this course of action I do not know. I’m currently on holiday, which has perhaps given me a false feeling of free-time, enough to waste on thoughts of my childhood; perhaps I’m ultimately lonely, and this is my subconscious screaming out for social contact; perhaps I just like surfing in the quest for knowledge.

I’d probably have gone through with the idea if I’d not needed to register. And for that I am thankful. You see, I really do not care what the people with which I fortuitously spent a few years of my schooling are currently doing. With the exception of two people, I’m in contact with all the other people that I consider to be my friends from that time, and even those people do not get the time they deserve.

I, unlike Jo, really do not require a social life of any magnitude, and find most social activity a waste of time compared to that which I could spend with my family, blogging or playing video-games. So it is with great satisfaction that I crossed down the window that could have been a window to my past in the present.