There are 2089 names entered in the contact manager I currently keep on my computer. At some point during the past ten years, I have shared a lunch, a laugh, a beer , an evening or a life with each of these people. I am absolutely appalled that I can't even recognize half of their names anymore.
Nothing rings a bell.
These names on my screen no longer conjure up voices. And I'm sure the phone numbers now belong to someone else. I hate to admit it, but I can't even remember why many of these people were included in the database in the first place. Over a thousand people down the drain. But that's not the remarkable thing.