want to find people again, that i lost contact with

I have been trying to find a friend that live in michigan. I have tried reunions.com and classmates.com, along with the white pages. Can someone give me some advice on how to find someone without paying a fortune…

I was actually just thinking about this earlier, several of my friends from when I was younger and what ever happened to them….and how to find them again.

I found a girl I used to babysit when I was in my late teens. She is now in her late 20’s and that just blows my mind! We seemed to pick up right where we left off. I was a little concerned that she wouldn’t remember me but she did. She even remembered all the crazy warped stuff we used to do.

I also found a friend that used to be my clubbing buddy back in the day. She’s in a different state now and I was able to locate her from her myspace page. We’ve made the first connect and I can’t wait to catch up.

There are 2 others I want to find that were work friends back in the early 90’s.

I think i’m in contact with all lost contacts now, where I define a lost contact is someone who’se name I know but I’m unsure as to what their contact details are.

I think the best thing anyone can do is not change emailadresses, since it would result in people losing track.

If it weren’t for one particular contact having remained at the same email, I wouldn’t have been able to find him.

And I also realise that people I got along with in my childhood/study years, have left a considerable impact on me.

‘Back in april, i did a ‘net search to try & find a fellow poet/writer i used to be in a writers group with, who i’d been out of touch with for quite a few years. I was looking for help with my struggling Poetry Writers group, and only hoped i could talk him in showing up for a few meetings, &/or giving some insight in how to improve the group….

Well, here’s its now Sept, and not only has he become the co-organizer of poetry group, but we’ve come to re-establish a pretty decent friendship,,,,in some ways even better than the friendship we had before—more honest in lots of ways

it’s been great getting to know him again…and re-inforces my belief that its always worthwhile to re-connect with special people from your past….

I first marked this “Not Worth It.”

I stumbled across one of my very favoritest people in the whole wide world from junior high, many years later. He had grown lethargic and lecherous. He tried to hit on me in my boyfriend (at the time)’s house. I would rather have kept the fantasy of him as a sweet, vulnerable, offbeat kid.

I’ve had similar reunions a couple of other times.

But I’ve also reconnected with other people with whom I needed to reconnect.

I changed my review to “Worth It” because I learned something about myself and my tendency to idealize people and about the need to seize the moment in the moment, not years later, through experiencing the less pleasant reunions.

Classmates.com is a good place to start.