keep in contact with my friends

I just sent a message to one of my friend that I haven’t spoken to for like a year. I know it sounds weird being abke to write a comment on here really easily, but it is thinking of what to say, especially if you haven’t spoken to them in ages.

I’m Going To miss my friends so much when i go to college and i want to make sure i keep in contact with them all!

x

I have put my friends aside to raise my children. Living in the midwest it was difficult for me to understand others with what I call followers. I work at being a leader or trail blazer. I am the oldest in my family and never felt close to any one person. My friends I have met while traveling have since became my new Christ family. However, they are spread across the U.S. it makes it hard to keep in contact other than email or phone.

When I call friends multiple times, and leave messages, but get no response, my abandonment issues really get stirred up. Well I get this via text message and email today from a friend:

Sorry I’m such a bad friend and don’t call you. I just want you to know that I think about you all the time and love you lots!

I’m not sure what to make of that…why wouldn’t she just call me?

I’m getting a whole lot better at snail mail correspondence! :D I like throwing in some photos in with letters to – I like to imagine their response. It’s mostly scenery photos. If it’s for my little cousins, I throw in stickers I’ve had for a while but never used. Someone might as well make use of them :D.

I’ve also almost gotten everyone’s mailing addresses collected in one email account so that should be easy to find (I tend to lose them if I write them down). Whee!

Those are my primary ways of keeping in touch. I’m on a postcard kick right now, though, and I’m sending batches of them out. A nice thick batch is going out tomorrow morning. :D

Facebook is lovely, though. I also try to email but hardly anyone replies back. I can’t get a substantial email from very many people.

I find that receiving a text message from someone I normally don’t hang out with is still as exhilarating as someone who I see a lot. It still starts off the day right – so I’ve taken to sending out text messages on Monday and Tuesday mornings to people. Well, I’ve done this all along but I’m making more of an effort to text people I usually don’t text, as well.

It’s also a nice and short way to get a summary of their weekend (if they care to respond) and to see if they have upcoming plans. :)

I’m going to try to make this a goal every week – to send out a few choice text messages. I’ll also send out emails at least once a month to people I never ever talk to just to keep in touch. sigh

I sent out postcards to friends this week! Three of them received them already. I’m so glad :). They all seemed to like it – it’s a random surprise, I guess. :D

From the 4 letters I sent last week, I only got word from one but I don’t think the others would let me know anyway. But I’ll assume they did receive them. :)

The idea of sending out random mail is pretty fun! :)

I’ve made a better attepmpt at keeping in touch with old friends and whatnot through myspace and facebook and a few calls here and there. I don’t know how I could say that I’ve met this goal since it’s a process with no real way to prove that I met or did not make this goal, so I’m going to go ahead and say that I have suceeded on the grounds that I am now trying harder and am getting responces regularly and more often then before. I will continue to do this.

I use facebook a lot to help keep in touch with people, even if it is only the occasional post. I have a myspace account but I hate it to death. I don’t use it. I check it like once every 2 months or something.

I just sent out 4 letters the other day – some of ‘em were later than I had intended but at least they got sent, right? know for sure one of them has arrived but the other 3 are international so maybe they will take a little longer. It’s actually kind of fun!

Perhaps I will send out a couple more letters or packages this week to friends in California. :D