We had a little celebration for easter today with some friends and some family. Truth be told I’m less and less interested in parties with more than five people. Much more than that and you either choose one person to really enjoy your time with, or dilute your time with everyone else down to not a hell of a lot more than hellos. I prefer my groups small and focused and thoughtful. In the end a party tends to move that way for me. I’ll sit most with one person or another, and we’ll talk the most while I sadly know less about the rest. We’ll have our hellos and it’ll be nice and the vibe will be good and jovial, but I’ll not walk away from the experience feeling like I really know how that person is, or that we’ve advanced our friendship and our understandings of one another. Not that that’s the point of conversation, really. 

Jack and I have been getting together for years now, we aren’t learning much more about one another, really. The point of getting together is entirely different from newer friends.