Apples to Apples

Apples to apples... that is the game about getting to know people and how they think, isn't it?

I could be on a cruise. Well... I mean, I really couldn't be on a cruise cuz I can't afford it, but I am having just as much fun with my friends as if I WERE on a cruise. :o)

For a "people person" the internet is just about as much fun as it gets! Bogging, chatting, e-mailing, "facebooking" (surely that is a verb, no?). I have managed to hook up with some of my BEST friends from high school lately through the internet. It has been amazing how we have just been able to pick up where we left off. Isn't it interesting how our minds store so much info, so many thoughts, so many memories that just sit tucked away in the deep dark caverns of our brains until we need to pull them forward again? (what do you mean YOU don't have deep dark caverns in YOUR brain? Hmm...) Anyway, it has been a lot of fun going down memory lane and fitting the pieces together of where my friends have been in the last 20 years.

All in all, it seems to me that people don't change that much over time. I mean, I can hear my friends' voices as I read what they write. They still sound the same. The inflections are still there just like they were years ago. It is reassuring in a way - I mean, if they haven't changed all that much, then perhaps I haven't changed all that much. If they liked me then, they will probably still like me now! :o)

There is just something about our CORE (in comes the apple thing). As humans I think we have a core; a core which does not change through life's events. It IS who we are. We can put layers on our core and build walls around our core in hopes of protecting ourselves. Those walls and layers may change our outward appearance, and perhaps some of our actions, but I am just not so sure that anything can really change our core! I think that when we peel off the skin and eat away the juicy fruit, we all end up with the same thing... a core - with the seeds inside that are really the life of the apple.

No, I am not going to take the analogy further and make apple pie, or apple fritters, or even The Apple Dumpling Gang.... I just wanted to remind myself that I love going on a cruise (even thought I've never been on one), and that my friends and I are all fruits!