Old Friends
Nothing rocks like hearing from old friends.
College is weird. You live side by side with a huge number of young and bored people like you. You share strange adventures and wind up with strange memories. A few years later, you and everyone you’ve come to care about in the past 4 or 5 years scatter to the wind. Nice Stef in San Diego, the Al and the Illustrious Jenna Gable in New York, the Endlessly Epic Bob in Atlanta. The people you used to see everyday, would buy drinks for on weeknights, and who shared in capers… now you only talk to a few times a week, or once every few months, or not at all.
It’s a sad reality. With so many people in so many places, how do you really keep up? Can you really count reading myspace posts and facebook updates? Of course not. The only thing I can think to do is dedicate a week per month to contacting everyone you can think of. Thankfully, technology has made it easy to keep track of people. A few clicks, a couple of keystrokes, and I’ve sent a “word up” message to someone I haven’t seen since graduation. It’s a sorry excuse for the kind of contact I had over the weekend, seeing Margo for the first time in I don’t know how long. It’s more contact than I would have had before the age of the internet. Keeping track of phone numbers? Mailing addresses? I’ve moved every year for the past 6 now.
I guess I’ll continue to do what I can. This week, I’ll make an effort to contact some of the people who’ve drifted the furthest away, and see how life is treating them.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
It’s tough for sure. I have a hard time just trying to keep in touch with my own family sometimes, let alone friends.