Circle of Trust

The other evening I overheard the tail end of a conversation Dauber was having, where he said, “it’s not my fault Meta has so many friends”.  I assumed it was regarding several PAX complaining about Team Comet having so many Kotter’s.  See our team having so many kotter’s was not by accident.  When I first started F3,  I recalled Blue Gill’s CoT about reaching out to Pax/Kotter’s that may have fallen off from coming out to F3.  You never know what a man is going through, he said, whether it’s injury or something personal going on with their life, we should be reaching out and checking in.  I was 3 months into F3 when RDG’s started, Dauber, Rooney and I became pretty close friends during the first few weeks as we would EC3 ruck every morning.  About 3 weeks in, I fell off due to personal health issues and Covid.  I mean I had literally just gotten to know these guys and next thing I know they’re reaching out asking how I’m doing.  They were offering to bring me food, soup, even offered to pick up my medicine.  Another PAX, Homer Simpson reached out and asked if he could gather a few of the guys and come visit me while I was out with my health issues.  Their willingness to help me and check on me really left a lasting impression on me.  Since then, I’ve made it a point to reach out to Pax who have fallen off from coming out.  From having Six Sheets and his wife over for dinner, to constantly checking in with Tighty Whities and having the fortune of running into him and his family at Buona Beef back in September, consistently texting Choco Taco, which he ignored about 2/3rds of my text but still met me for lunch at Station One Smokehouse, and having an open text message conversation with Danica trying to get him to come back out throughout the summer, spending a few minutes with Fire Hose and his dad at any Bears game that we both happened to be at, to the point where we text each other sporadically on Sunday’s to see if either one of us made it to the game.  These are the types of connections we should all be making, some may seem small and insignificant but they make lasting impressions, at least they did for me when Dauber, Rooney and Homer Simpson reached out to me.  So yeah, we have several Kotter’s, but there’s good reason, so I encourage all PAX to reach out, find something in common with other Pax and make them connections that will keep guys coming back out.