get back in touch with old friends

Signed up with FaceBook couple of months ago and have found lots of people. Dinner with an old, very good friend that I missed dearly last Friday night. Sending a note to another tomorrow. Trying to get a lunch date together with a high school chum. 2 years ago

well one friend in particular when i finished highschool 2 years ago i fell out with one of my bestfriends and i haven’t seen or talked to her since and i really want to get back in touch and forgive and forget and get over this also theres other online people that i have lost contact with and i miss 2 years ago

Met up with best friend from high school over Thxgvg break. It’s been easily over a year, so it was great to catch up. Wish we had more time to spend together, but it was still good to rekindle.

However, while on the break, my cell phone crapped out, and lost all of my contact information along with it. Argh! I’m sure I still have some data in fragments somewhere, but my phone had pretty much everything. Bummer.

Well – i guess it’s an excuse to start emailing hellos to everyone, and getting contact info again… 3 years ago

facebook is great for this! Also went to high school reunion over the summer. 3 years ago

Ok – well with the combined power of LinkedIn and a coincident HS reunion, I’ve corresponded with a few old friends.

Although only brief contacts, at least some contact and a start toward this goal.

Now – it’s time to keep the momentum going. 3 years ago

I always think about my old peeps, and I always promise myself that “this will be the year”, and then another year goes by and I get yet another year distant from people I once knew well.

This is the age of communication though, man. No more excuses!

Time to reach out… 3 years ago

Hello there,

Well a couple years ago I used to be alot closer with a certain group of friends.. when we would all hang out I was usually invited. But, now that we have not been as close I can't seem to get back 'in the circle' and be called up for events. I think the main problem is that I am not really good friends with any of the girls.. and even call only some of the guys in the group.. Perhaps you can help me 3 years ago

I’ve finally come out of hermitude and initiated contact with some old friends, and have done some hanging out as of late. It feels good to reconnect :) 4 years ago

It really is amazing how many relationships have picked up all because of The Spacey Space. It’s been a very good thing. 4 years ago

This needs an entry: we were in Dublin the week before last and I met my lovely Emma for the first time in 2 years! It was great, and we’re going to stay in touch! I missed her so. 5 years ago

I finally got up the guts and got in touch with an old friend who now lives in Billings. We’re up in Montana visiting my wife’s family, so I’m gonna drive down this evening and hook up with him. He and I used to be thick as thieves, but now it’s been about ten years since we last spoke to each other. It will be interesting to see what’s changed, and what hasn’t. Also I really hope we can stay in touch this time (of course). 5 years ago

so far this is working very well for me.

i found a girl using the online white pages that i hadn’t talked to in about 10 years.

we talked for about 2 hours on the phone. 5 years ago

I had planned to meet lots of old friends while in Finland, but due to the circumstances I only managed to see 5 of my friends. They were 5 of my closest friends and I was so happy to see them that thinking about it still brings little wussy tears in my eyes, but there was still a good few people I missed.

In my defense, the world seemed a bit against us on the trip: my oldest sister was put into a hospital just a few days before I arrived (I didn’t get so see her either) so the first few days I spent with my other sister, talkingtalkingtalking about her situation. Once I had all the family stuff done, I got mastitis accompanied with a high fever, and I couldn’t get out of the bed for 2 days. The week was nearly gone already, but once I was back out and about, the baby’s flu killed all previous plans and we ended up not going back to Helsinki at the end of the trip as planned at first.

To make up for this, I have been emailing, texting and IM:ing this week. I found a few long-lost friends in MySpace, they have been delighted to hear from me and that’s totally made my week. There is so many people I miss in this world! 5 years ago

emailed Gaetano and Kirsti today and talked to Raouf in the messenger yesterday. Slowly, steady now… 5 years ago

We went to Dublin last Friday and met up with Judith in a lovely Italian wine bar by the Liffey. Not that there would be anything particularly beautiful about Liffey. I hadn’t spoken to her for 2 years but things were exactly as we left them. It was so good to talk to her again, and we said we’d keep in touch more often now.

I also met up with Derek, Kevin and Amel. It was really good to see them too, it was a bit of a reality check to introduce my child to the friends I used to live during the years when I had a lighter approach to life. So nice.

Next step: I’m going to Finland next month and hoping to catch up with some old school friends during my short few days in Helsinki. 5 years ago

Yesterday I sent “Happy Easter” text messages to everyone in my cell phonebook. I was amazed at how quickly I received responses, some from people I haven’t talked to in months. 5 years ago

I just got an email from Amel today, and I’ll be meeting up with her when we go to Dublin next week! Yay! Hopefully I can meet other people off my list while I’m there. I’m trying to find the courage to ring a few more next week.

It’s even harder than usually now that my life is changed so much, some of the people I want to see again don’t even know I’m going out with anyone, let alone that we’ve had a baby. See, it’s been far too long. 5 years ago

To start doing something about this goal, I decided to make a list of people I would like to get back in touch with:

Paju
Saara P (Helsinki)
Emma H (Dublin)
Vilma
Judith
Antti K (Tampere)
Raouf
Gaetano
Ellen
Amel
Hewson
Sarah Leer
Joe & Hanna
Simo
Elina-ihana
Hanna A (Tre)
Johanna N (Hki)
Anna & Ferry (Sthlm)
Nico (France)
Louise (Swe/Dk)

It’s a start anyway, I know there is lots more people that I will want to see again but I’ll add them as I think of them. 5 years ago

then loosing a friend for some un known reason and all you sit and wonder is why… trust me it sucks and it HURTS so bad5 years ago

I moved away 6 years ago and used to write letters to my old best friend constantly.. then we kind of just stopped! I would really like to wroite to her again cause we get on really well but i just can’t pluck out the courage or find the time to write it ! ARRGHH… silly me!!6 years ago

I found one of my old friends, shy_light, here on 43things. We went out to lunch on Friday and had a good time catching up. This goal is well worth doing. Additional goal- stay in touch with old friends. 6 years ago

I have a couple that I’d like to get back in touch with. One I’ve already contacted, and I see her on IM now and then these days. We weren’t out of touch that long, though, so that was the easy one. Next is a really, really good friend from high school that I haven’t talked to in almost 10 years. Then comes my host family from Poland. 6 years ago

I’m not sure what it is, but it is very easy for me to lose contact with friends and let the silence go on for ages!
The more time that passes makes it that much more difficult to pick up the phone and say “yo” but I really just need to do it. 6 years ago