days go by...

I was looking through pictures the other day and ran over some from a training event. We were at a slow time and had all sat down to eat. All of a sudden this game picked up...the remeber game. It is played many ways. Sometimes you just bring up an old memory...or (like we started) you play it with words and familiar things that connect people who really don't know each other.

You see this was before my unit deployed, so we didn't know each other and none of us really had that much in common being from different states and all walks of life. So you look for something to talk about and some common ground...childhood is always a good place to start. "Hey, remember the smirfs?" "I loved that show when I was a kid." "Oh, how about Full House?" (then here we go...) "Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh....Whatever happen to predictablility, the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV..." "What about this one...'As days go by, we're gonna fill our house with happiness...'?" "That's the Family Matters theme song." "What about slinkies? Remember how much fun it seemed pushing them down stairs. What kind of play is that? Hahaha"

And so it continues, for hours. We all sit there remembering and finding that surface common ground, until we have been around each other long enough to share and find that ocean deep common ground that forms a bond that can never be broken.