keep in better touch with friends

I’ve been a hermit for the last couple of months and I need to stop! I picked up the phone last night and called one girlfriend. I’m hoping to call my sister today. I need to stay in better touch with people!

I’ll put some letters in the mail…

Or print up some pictures and tell people how much they mean to me.

I’ve been attracting special people from my past lately and we’ve been connecting. It makes me feel rooted.

I have been in my own little world lately and I really feel like I have been neglecting people. I need to at least drop my friends an email! It seems like we are all so busy lately but I know that’s not a good excuse.

... at least sometimes I feel like i don’t have friends anymore. I really want to keep in better touch with my friends. I don’t want to end up like one of those people that don’t have any.

not quite done, for sure, until i make it a real habit, BUT i wrote a letter- a real letter!- to a friend today, emailed my best friend in egypt, and talked to another best friend, at home. i’m better at doing this when i’m home than at school, here it’s hard because people only want to hang out and do things and i can’t from here. but i’m starting with reaching out to my best friends more and we’ll go from there :-)

Someone told me that a classmate of mine had died. They told me the name and my heart just sank. It was one of my best friends from high school. I went to the funeral home, hugged his Mother shook hands with his brother and chatted for a little while. They were all surprised to see me for the first time in about 15 years and wanted to know where I have been. I was ashamed to admit that I have been just down the road all this time. I always figured I’d eventually get back in touch with folks, after all, who among us is going to die at 35 years of age? The phone call this week answered that question.

Did a great job today. Spent time with my friends as well as take a few hours for my two closest friends. Feels great. I love it when I have the feeling that we just get along.
I already have an idea for christmas presents for all my friends. I’ll make it myself – everything:) just to show everyone that I cherish them and I love them just for being in my life:)

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Ok, so for the last two years I’ve gotten out of the habit of keeping in touch with people, mainly because of the destructive relationship I was in, and the fall out from it finally ending. But no more! 2007 is a new year, I have lots of lovely friends, many of whom have been very understanding when I’ve told them why I’ve been a bit incommunicado of late, so this year (and for the forseeable) future, I’m going to make an effort to keep in touch.

I am a bit upset about my challenge to keep in better touch with friends. It doesn’t matter how much effort you put in – if it is not reciprocated what can you do?

I got terribly upset today just because I had a christmas card from a school friend who I had tried to stay in touch with to say she had a son in September – I feel so cut out of the loop. It is mainly as when I had my kids I could not keep meeting socially with the friends who all live around Manchester and the North West – so I made huge efforts but with the best will in the world could not keep it up. Now everyone else has kids I seem to have dropped off their radar.