I miss people I do not remember

Is that strange?  I keep thinking of these friends and acquaintances from old work places, high school and college, but I can not remember their names or anything very specific about them.  If I think I know the name, I try and search for them to try and reconnect, but invariably, I can not find them.

I can't even remember anything really specific about them, except that maybe we were on the wrestling team together, or we hung out or dated on occasion or were in a class together or had the same boss or worked on a project together.

I suppose its not a big deal.  If I can not remember them, then they must not have had a significant impact on me.  However, it makes it seem as if I have no past.  

I mean, I know I have a past.  It just does not seem all that "grounded".  I have never lived anywhere for longer than four years at a time.  And only a very few of the connections I have made in any of those places, have I been able to stay in contact with.  Even then, I have very few specific memories about these people.

Then there are some people that I go for years without speaking to or hearing from and then one day one of us picks up the phone and its as if we had never lost contact.  And there is so much I feel I want to know about them.  What have they been doing for the past however many years?   How did they meet their current partner?  Do they like sushi?  What's their favorite color?  Which books have they read that have had an impact on them?  Have they had surgery?  Lost a spouse?  been sick?  traveled abroad?  andicantrememberwhatcoloryoureyesareandireallywantotlookintothemandseewhatisbehindthemandconnectonareallevelbutweare1000milesapartintimeandspaceandthereisntarealisticwaywecouldeverreallyknowoneanotheragainandifindthatverysadandnotabittragic

(Thanks Heather for the idea on that formatting).

So although I do not feel lost or ungrounded in my current situation, I am having difficulty with my past.  And it is odd to me.  Not that I will end up doing anything about it, its just something I have been thinking about lately.

I guess I'll mow the lawn, clean the pool, trim the garden, do the dishes, get some home work done, call the credit card company, play with my daughter, and write a blog.  Just like the rest of the world that I seem to have lost contact with.