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The only thing I get from meeting again people I haven't seen for decades is to, using the abilities I've been acquiring with time and life experience to read other people beyond the superficial, find out that ~~most~~ many haven't really mature much from the people I knew and at times how much I misjudged them back in the old days when I was very naive and ran around pretty lost.
The "I'm better than that" feeling would be highly satisfying if I was a different kind of person, but it's actually just sad that some people turn out to either having always been less than I made them up to be in my mind or failed to actually turn into well balanced mature adults.
The other possibility is that it's all in my mind and I'm just deceiving myself, as having become more more self-deluded when it comes to others with time looks exactly the same from the inside as having become a little wiser in interpreting others.