A good conversation

My friend Chris lives in Orono, and gave me a ride to and back from Minnesota.
The car ride up to Minnesota was pretty average. Some light-hearted joking around, small talk, playing classic car-ride games, jamming to music...

Chris was one of my first really close friends here at Iowa State. I was really glad to meet him, and felt comfortable with him almost instantly.

But more recently we had lost touch. Which was alright with me, I guess. But I wasn't looking forward much to our three hour car rides. I thought they might be awkward, and might be pretty quiet.

The first one proved to me as I expected it. I kept him talking for the first half pretty easily by asking him about all that's been going on with his life lately: he just got an internship with Rolls Royce for the Spring (very exciting).

The ride home was completely different, however.

We had a really good conversation. And I don't know what else to say about it than that.
It was a real conversation that both of us were invested in, and both of us had plenty to contribute to. And it was more meaningful than not.

I really appreciated it. And I think we've become close again, which is something that I hadn't realized I missed.