keep in touch with friends

Met one of my childhood friends, whom I haven’t seen in two or three years and it was great! We looked at photos and went to a bar to talk until it closed. It is amazing how you can choose friends when you are four years old and still get along great when you are nineteen.
Also emailed another friend today.

This will be that much harder to achieve once I am in Italy and I am only marking it done when I feel like I made a good effort to keep in touch with all my friends over the year.

I wrote two letters to friends today, one is a childhood friend and the other one I met in the States and she is actually from Turkmenistan. I am glad I got this done today, because it is very unlikely I will see her in the next couple of years. Still, I want to keep in touch and stay friends as good as possible.
I also went to lunch and for a nice long walk last week with another friend, whom I haven’t seen since January. I even called her up today, because she had a date last weekend and I wanted to know how it went. I didn’t catch her, but I left a message on her answering machine.
I don’t really know when I will be able to say “I did this”. I think it’s more of an ongoing thing. Kinda like a reminder not to forget about the people that used to be a big part of your life but aren’t anymore just because you are all growing up. I am not gonna let this “growing up” become “growing apart”. At least not for the people I had in mind when I added this goal.

Well, today I wrote a mail to one of my childhood friends, who is currently living in France. Even though I don’t really like to write emails, sometimes it is a nice way to keep in touch with friends. She is doing well and I hope I get to see he as soon as she’s back home, because I haven’t met up with her in a long time. Too long, if you ask me. But the older you get, the busier your life gets and thus it is a lot harder to really keep in touch with all the people that matter.
So, just try as best as you can. If they are really friends and not just some kind of … companion for a certain part in your life, like maybe people from school, it will definitely be worth it.

Yesterday I wrote a friend from Brazil a letter and today another friend from Turkmenistan an email, because the letter I snet her got returned.I would really hate losing touch with my friends, but unfortunately I am not so good at this. I do think about my friends all the time, but I just can’t make enough time to actally send them a letter or a card. I just like sending actual mail, rather than emails, just because I enjoy getting letters way more than emails.
Well, I have really improved over the last couple of weeks, though, which gives me a very unique feeling of happiness. Feeling that I’ve really tried my hardest to keep in touch. This is way more important to me then actually getting answers, which I would of course love, but knowing that I did my share is enough for me. I just feel like I’ve already lost touch with so many great and wonderful people. I would hate for that to happen again.