There is something special about the friends that know you from back when. Last weekend, we had dinner with friends I have had since just after I started practicing law. (You know who you are!) For perspective, I am coming up on thirty years.

When you have known each other that long, everything that happens has context. You don’t have to explain it. You were both around when so much of it happened. You know each other’s families, their children and more.

Life moves fast these days but sometimes your “old” friends help to slow it all down.