Thanks. In truth, the example I cited was the exception to the norm at our reunions. Classmate A stood out so much that at one point several of his friends pulled him aside to point out what a fool he was making of himself.
We have gone back to all of our college reunions (they happen every 5 years). Maybe because most of the friends DW and I made in college tended to have similar drives for goals balance with a desire to stop and smell the roses
, and we cheered out each others success throughout the years regardless of our own situation. The more common example is being in a discussion at one reunion with 3 other friends whose combined net worth is close to $1 billion. We found that we all enjoyed golf and were not "intense" about it, and making dates to visit each others areas to play a a round. They were just as happy playing on the public, inexpensive golf course that I play on as were when playing on one private country club course that one of them partially owned. It was all about the company, not the surroundings.