Vicissitudes and Victories

When Two Phases Meet

I feel like I have befriended many people in a variety of settings and ways. Many of the people I know, I know in mutually exclusive settings. For example at Brigham Young University-Idaho I had my roommates and the people I met from the ward. I had former roommates and people I had met in former wards. I had the friends that I knew from the music department. And I also had friends from the History Department and my Special Collections co-workers. Truth be told, very few of those friends from different settings knew any of my other friends from other settings. Thus, my life felt very compartmentalized.

When I came here to Utah State I made more friends. I don't think that I have as many exclusive friendships--my life is much more focused here at USU. The only exclusivity came as old friends moved on and new friends began school. I also have a few friendships I made through significant others that don't know the rest of my friends. But overall I think my life is much less compartmentalized here except that none of my USU friends know any of my BYU-I friends.

Tonight the compartmentalized parts of my life converged as I took my present, wonderful girlfriend to see a concert on temple square involving many of my musician friends from my former life at BYU-Idaho. It was interesting and kind of weird to se these two phases of my life converging as fate threw them together. It was interesting to see my friends smile at the happiness my new girlfriend brought me. My girlfriend enjoyed seeing me smile as I remembered my love of music and these wonderful people that play it. For one small moment, my compartmentalized life became a little more complete and cooperative. It was weird, but it was also nice for people that I love from different places and activities to come together through this beautiful night of music.

posted by Joel @ 11:31 PM