Old Friends! How Many Old Friends Have You Kept in Touch With??

@artistry (4152)
United States
January 1, 2010 2:58am CST
We make friends through the years, but do we keep in touch with them? How many of the friends that you have made in the past, have you kept in touch with throughout the years? Would you make the effort to revive your old friendships?
5 responses
• Malaysia
3 Aug 10
Keeping in touch with old friends is one of those things that is easy to let slip, even though your intentions where quite the opposite. You get busy with your current life. You barely have time for yourself, far less for old friends. While you may feel this way of times, the reality is that it is good for the soul to keep in touch with really old friends. So, you should consider finding a way to do so, as the return on investment of time will surely be high.
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@artistry (4152)
• United States
4 Aug 10
...Hi there Albert, It is true, we should make the effort to keep in touch with old friends. I do have one old friend who I am still in touch with. She is the nicest person, and I hate myself sometimes because I want to call her before she calls me and there she is on the phone before I can call her. I have to remember to be faster. "o) Thanks for your reply. Take care.
@Genericbe (1376)
• Philippines
8 Jan 10
I have few selected long time friends and we do keep in touch despite of distance. WE have one theme before when we are still in highschool "unite we stand, divided we fall" that bind us till now. Our relationships had tested our friendship. This is what good about internet-computer technology. We communicate a lot and continue to share all about life between us. Distance is nothing for a good friendship. Frequent communication holds us together. If ever I have a lost friend, I will make efforts to revive and keep our friendship existing. That is what real friends are for I believe that friendship complete the other part being a person.
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@artistry (4152)
• United States
8 Jan 10
....Hi Genericbe, You and your friends, based on your response, have forged what I would call real friendships. It is not always easy with everything that goes on in one's life to keep a friendship in tact. But with the genuineness involved between all of you, it was easier. There is a sense of great closeness and support for each of you from the other. That is hard to find on a continuing basis. Thanks very much for sharing. Take care.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
5 Jan 10
I'm still in touch with my best friend from school. It took ages as we went off in totally different directions at first. Now, we catch up via cards at Christmas time, I wish we were closer. I've moved around a lot during my life and it's hard to make friends under those circumstances...harder to keep them. One place I lived I joined a club and became very active in the community. I made some good friends. Then I left, to return again about 12 years later. I was working as a checkout chick in the local supermarket while I studied and I ran into most of my old friends....who did not want to know me. I was shopping after work one day and one of these "friends" who is a bank teller, remarked'....."oh, you shop here too?" My response was ..."where do you do your banking?" Let's face it, a bank teller is just the same as a checkout chick...one does food the other does money.
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@artistry (4152)
• United States
5 Jan 10
...Hi there MsTickle, It is always interesting to find out about folks who want to stake a claim on the "I think I'm better than you" syndrome. My thought is and pardon my crudeness, but we are all, everyone of us "three bowel movements away". What I mean by that is, if you think you are so much better than I am, let's see what happens if you don't have three bowel movements in a row and the poisons start to back up into your system, and you began to go toward the dirt that we all came from. Tell me about your belief that you are so much better than I am. We have no control over certain things, so the nonsense about you are better does not cut it. We are all on equal footing. So otherwise a laxative is their only recourse. So I then laugh out loud, and go on my way rejoicing. Some things make it a level playing field. Take care. Oh yes, somewhere, I remember it says "the servant is greater than his master", why? Because he can humble himself to take the bs and not kill the donkey (my own interpretation). You are quite right about the positions. Your sense of humor will always take you through.
@Metatronik (6199)
• Pasay, Philippines
26 Mar 12
In my case I only have 2 that I have keep in touch with.
@merci322 (29)
• United States
26 Mar 12
Because of Facebook I've recently come back into contact with a lot of my friends from grade school, high school, and young adulthood. I moved a lot when I was young so I had a new best friend almost every year. I do get nostalgic for old times from high school etc, but I've noticed that most people have changed, and not necessarily for the better. Mostly I miss the friends I had right after high school. Most of them moved so far away it is difficult to have a meaningful relationship. I am the kind of person that likes daily, or at least weekly, contact. It would be great if old friends caught up with me though. Always exciting to hear from an old friend.