CrossFit Athletic Group

Its memorial day and im flowing down the Crystal River, enjoying my holiday free from any of Mr Vans incredulous comments about the attendance of the Champions Clubs, when I made the decison to look behind me on the river and take in the scenery. My blissful state was interupted by the scalding of my eyes from the sight of none other than Jack decker wearing short shorts still outlawed in 8 different US states.

It had been 3 years since I had seen Jack, Ive known him since the 7th grade, went to highschool with him, played on multiple  basketball teams with him, won a regional championship with him in cross country, knew his family well, and he had a short stint in the champions club if I remeber correctly, he was a really good friend of mine. You would think seeing him for the first in time in 3 years would be, exciting, memorable, and a great chance to reconnect. Well, im ashamed to admit, I dreaded the conversation and within a 4-days had forgotten 90 percent of the content of our conversation.

I made the mistake of asking a bunch of questions I felt obigated too, instead of ones I actually wanted to. Questions like "what are you doing next year?", "got an internship this summer?", "oh nice will you sign with that company?". too which I got a response: "Yep, doing my masters in enginneering, working at this place for the summer (I already forgot which place), and at this company what ill be doing is *blah* *blah* *blah*" I immediatley started tuning out.  I guarntee Jack did the same when I followed up by telling him I have one semester left of college, what classes im taking next semester, and that im working at a health clinic part time, its boring just typing this out.

Instead of a "reconnection" with Jack, for me it felt like a conversation where you have to pull teeth to keep coming up with things to ask and talk about, kinda like the classic grad party conversations after highschool. It dawned on me afterwards I couldve asked about so many different things that wouldve broke the realm of small talk, the biggest on my mind being, what was it like to be at a school that won a national championship in football this year? (something its looking like I wont expereince during my time as a spartan in any sport)

This has been something ive been trying to break free from as of recently, and its a problem thats been bugging me for probably the last year or so, with this type of conversation with Jack Decker starting to be the norm. The more and more of these types of conversations ive been having over the last year the more ive been dreading having any conversations at all, slipping back into pre-college not able to hold a conversation Owen.

Some internal reflecting made me realize a lot of the people im  close with at the moment, ive never talked about these kind of questions. I love talking to Mr. Gjon, to my knowledge weve never talked about how his jobs buisness is going, same with Mr. Ron. Most of the college kids my age I really couldnt tell you what major they are, or what they even want to do with that major, but id say my relationship at this time is better with them than a lot of the people I ask those questions. I need to be spending time going to IHOP after a murph workout with Anto, Jess, Cec and the rest of that group, not asking small talk questions that im gonna forget the answer too on the ride home.