A lot happens in 7 years

I am lucky to have a fine group of friends. They maybe dispersed all over the world, but they are magnificent.

One particular group meets only once or twice a year now, but when we do come together it is lovely. As one friend said, the time just flies by, it's like everything else stops, when we get chatting.

This weekend, we were all together again.

We talked about how we got together in the first place and how our lives were, way back then.

We then started to list what had happened in those 7/8 years. Boy, was it a long list. Full of significant life events.

When it came to my turn, I produced my list of events. My list included babies, country moves, house purchases etc.

One thing that I completey forget to mention, was that I had lost my hair in these years.

I truly and genuinely had forgetten that this had also happened.

WOW !

How was I able to forget that?

Part of me was shocked that I had omitted to mention, that I had gone from long thick, brown, flowing hair to baldness. Yet part of me was pleased that I did not define the past 7/8 years of my life by my alopecia.

It was one of my friends who had to remind me.

So what has happened to you over the last seven years? Is there something in that time, that you have forgotten about, something that really has been life significant, yet somehow it is not.

I am still shocked that I did not mention my alopecia. But a piece of me is really proud, that I do not view my baldness in that way and that I consider other events in my life far more important.