Whilst plowing through my emails a request to join yet another website was in my inbox, sent from an old Disney friend Claudia Rosani Allen. Well Claudia and I became friends back at Walt Disney World in 1995 and hard to believe that that was day where very few had access to email and personal email addresses. It was a day pre mobile telephones so our only method of contact in those early years just 12 years ago was via snail mail or telephone. That said many of us stayed in touch, albeit less frequently by the methods we had available.
Now with email and text messaging it is naturally much easier. So you can only imagine my delite when through joining this new site (facebook) I have found myself a member of an Alumni from my Disney years and have been reaquainted with many an old face and many a fond memory. Every morning I get a new friend request from a face I once knew.
This morning I had a message back from Kiyomi Tanabe. We were really close friends for our Disney years and somehow just over the past two years as email addresses change we had lost touch. We may not have had the technology back when we left Disney to stay in touch like we do today, but the technology caught up and has allowed us all to find one another once more and re kindle the friendships that we once knew.
They often say that people that are in an intense situation much like a massive dissaster or a terroriest attack find themselves strangley bonded to one another. Far be Disney anything nasty like those examples but it was the most intense and amazing experience any young man or woman could ask to live. Leaving home just 2 days after my 22nd Birthday and moving to Orlando to work, live and play at the Happiest Place on Earth is no mean feat. We went from being young men and women to being the adults that would shape our lives for the rest of our days and the friendships that we made back then although may have thinned as time as past, the love, compassion and friendship is still there. Thankfully through facebook we are all reuniting once more. Hopefully a reunion can occur in the not too distant future too.
Furthermore, its not only about Disney. Why My good friend Mikey Pettet found me on there just this week too. What exactly Mikey was doing in that outfit that was plastered all over his page I really dont know, but I will leave you to decide.
Happy Bank Holiday!
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