Losing Touch

United States
February 8, 2007 10:56pm CST
Do you find that you lose touch with some of your friends? I mean in this day and age you would think that it would be easier than ever to stay in contact with people. With email and cell phones and whatnot. But I find that there are some friends that I lose touch with on a regular basis no matter what. And it is a mutual thing. Sometimes I am the one who doesnt write back or call, and sometimes its them. Do you think this means that we aren't as good of friends as we used to be, or is life simply getting in the way?
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8 responses
• India
9 Feb 07
Yes sometimes i feel i am loosing touch with my friends. In fact since the time I have got myself a full time job, I hardly get the time to meet up with any of my friends. I try to keep up with them by calling / messaging them but that is also not very regular. I am so tired after i come back from office that i hardly have the energy to talk to anyone. I do try to call in between office hours but can hardly talk for 5 to 6 minutes.
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• United States
9 Feb 07
Work definately makes it even more challenging to stay in touch.
@vitekfdr (647)
• United States
5 Sep 07
yes and i agree that work makes it better
• India
10 Feb 07
like i said, life's just getting more virtual..its true that we sometimes are losing touch with our good friends, but that lies within our own hands..It depends on how much importance we give to our friends...sometmies, things do happen, in a way we dont want it to!!..but, we've to try our best to control our life!!
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• United States
10 Feb 07
True, but sometimes life is too hectic and chaotic to fully have control.
@brendalee (6082)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Growing up, I always had a lot of friends. I have many that I still email but that is about it. I know I should probably do more with them as they helped me through a tough part in life and vice versa. Recently, I had been going through some more really bad family stuff and I was sending out updates to all my friends via email. Only one friend kept in constant contact with me. But one day I got an email from another friend and she said that even though she didn't respond back to me, she always thought of me and was glad that I was keeping her updated. I beleieve that life does sometimes get in the way. We all have our own lives now when before we mainly just had each other. I know they still care about me and I care about them. Maybe someday I will arrange a get together with them. I know I should but all of us are always busy. It sucks being an adult sometimes.
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• United States
9 Feb 07
Isn't it crazy? When you are all in high school and college you can't wait to get out and be grown ups. And then when you are truly an adult and have all of the things that go with it, like responsibilities and family, there are times that you would love to have some of that carefree time back. We always have a blast when we get together. Last time was right before Christmas. We met up at a local restaurant in our hometown. We were there for 6 hours. I know the waiters were getting angry, but it is so great to catch up with old friends.
@abhiquest (579)
• India
9 Feb 07
Sometimes circumstances move us away from each other, and even the physical distance between us doesn't matter much than just situations.
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• United States
9 Feb 07
I agree, circumstances definately change, and that has a lot to do with it.
@Sweetpeas (738)
• Australia
10 Feb 07
I wouldnt so much as say that life gets in the way, but I certainly think we seem to branch off in other directions wich is normal. See, Im the only one of my frineds that has a child so yes we drifted apart a bit because im not out on the town anymore and theyre still partying lol. We still talk on the phone but it seems as though they are quite busy, where im a stay at home mum. But I think that if they are true friends then no matter what, eventually and at different times in your life you will come back together. I beleive its just the way life goes but these special freinds are always there in the background someway, if you know what i meen.
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• United States
10 Feb 07
I agree. I think that is why my friends and I always come back together. At least once a year. We just spend the rest of it drifting apart again. But you are right, we do always seem to find one another again.
• Australia
9 Feb 07
I think we take the ease of contacting each other for granted, and let the communication slip. Another thing is, I have way more friends than people in previous generations did. I have over 200 friends on myspace, all of who are people I have known (or bands that I like) but I don't keep in contact with a lot of them. I always make an effort to keep up with the people that really matter to me though. so I have a small core group of friends, and modern techonology does make keeping in contact easier.
• United States
9 Feb 07
I tend to agree with you that we do take it for granted. I have 3 "close" friends that live a distance away. We all try to stay in contact with one another, and do a great job for about 3 months, then it seems like we all get busy and before you know it, it has been 6 months since we last spoke or emailed. We do all try to get together at least once a year for lunch though.
• United States
10 Feb 07
oh yeah. i have lost touch with almost everyone i ever knew. its sad and makes me feel like a crapy person but i think these things just happen when you move around alot like i do.
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@vitekfdr (647)
• United States
5 Sep 07
Yeah usually i am feeling like that and it's sad