I think I do still want to contact Jim. I was knocked cranksided by what I discovered last week, but I just needed a little time to digest and process this new information.Yesterday I actually created my own LinkedIn account just so I could view his full profile. And I discovered even more interesting stuff. Geez, is this dude an overachiever or what? Of course, if you know the right corporate lingo, you can make anything sound more impressive than it really is. After all, I used to play that game myself, writing those One Page Performance Plans and Summary of Accomplishments every year, and all that BS.
But that's just the thing. It was sort of fun playing the game once upon a time, but it all bores me anymore.
After reading Jim's profile... all his "specialties"... Management dynamics, risk management, communications, information management, process analysis, systems engineering, blah blah blah, yada yada yada, I came to some items at the very end that really caught my attention:
...metaphysics, epistemology, objectivism and the human condition...
Hmmm...
Metaphysics? Epistemology? Objectivism? I hope he hasn't turned into one of those Ayn Rand fanatics with no sense of humor whatsoever...
I hope he's not all work and no play... I hope he still knows how to have fun of some sort...
I was so taken aback when I viewed his photo. I could've gotten past the white hair and the weight gain if his face had still looked pleasant.
But it didn't. It looked really grim and dour. I got the impression of someone who, despite his very impressive academic and vocational achievements, is a very unhappy person.
But then, maybe I'm reading way too much into a stupid photograph.
I meant what I said last week about no longer obsessing over The Ghost of Adolescence Past, and going out and getting a life instead (BTW, thank you, Chris, for your insightful comment along those lines... yes, that's exactly what I do -- I avoid).
But I still want to contact him, catch up and see how it goes. I'll just be very careful to keep it strictly casual and not make too much of it however it turns out.
In other news, I'm on Facebook all of a sudden. And I found out that two former classmates, people I haven't seen since ninth grade, are now living in the Chicago area.
One of them is someone I never liked much... but the other, Helen, I'm actually thinking of contacting. She was very sweet... and she's the one who beat me out in the Spelling Contest, all the way back in sixth grade.
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