keep in touch with my friends

don’t do this nearly enough.

OK, this is definetly a task for the whole life. To be able to tick it of one day I’ve to do the following:
I’ll be moving soon. Instead of writing a mass email to all my friends and relatives I’d like to use the opportunity to write personal emails or phone them to tell them my new address and to catch up with some news. After this I want to contact everybody I’d like to stay in touch with at least once again to then tick this off.
When contacting people I should actually try and encourage them to visit me or to meet somewhere else. Seeing somebody is better than 10 emails.

For a long time I didn’t keep in touch with good friends after moving very far away from them. But in the same light they didn’t keep in touch with me either. I found out who the keepers were, by who was loyal to staying in touch, and the others kind of faded away. I still keep in touch with those that are truly worth keeping close to my heart.

This is somehow difficult for me. I’m a friendly guy and can be somewhat sociable, but I also have a tendency toward detachment. I’ve lost touch with a few good friends. Why is it such a challenge for me to just give them a call every once in a while?

You know too much.

This is a never ending task and has always bothers me. I really want to do this but at the same time I never get around to actually do it. Maybe having this entry will help me.
It should be so easy with everybody having email. But instead of dropping a few lines now and then I always intend to write a long, nice, informative letter-like email and of course never do it …
To change this might be a first step.

remain in contact with my friends and make them a part of my life,

There was a time when I was pretty close to all of my friends. Well, that time has passed. It’s hard to call someone after a year and be like “Wassup”! It’s exprecially hard to do if the other person has a) moved away b)had a kid c)gotten married/engaged and your life has not changed at all. I feel like I can’t relate to these people anymore, but I still care for them and count them as friends. Case in point: A friend of mine called me this morning out of the blue. We had not spoken to each of since June although we occassional test each other. We really didn’t have anything to talk about so the conversatin lasted about 5 minutes. My life has not changed at all in the last year since I saw her last. Hers has changed dramaticaaly: new job, new fiance, and new baby. What do we have to talk about??? Yet in still, I miss the friendship that we shared, I’m just not sure how to get it back…

As we all go off to university or on our gap years this autumn, its not going to be so easy to keep up with each other’s lives. So I will be making a special effort via phone, email and journeys around the country to stay in touch with those that mean most. Not such a hardship really :-)

I am really bad about keeping in touch with my friend and family..that does not mean that I dont care…I simply cannot just pick up the phone just to say..Hi…If there is stuff to be discussed or conversation is required…I call.
I dont understand what I can talk about to people everyday..what do they talk about..?Dnt get me wrong I am not at all a shy person..or less talkative..but if I have somethg to say…I will call.
Ohhh…I am terrible, have to change that..will call my friends right now.