Blast from the Past

TwinsForever · #1 11-01-2008, 04:59 PM

I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason and that people come and go into our lives when we need them. ((They go when it's time to move on for whatever reason.))

So imagine my surprise when I logged into email this morning and got a message that someone that I went to HS who found me on Facebook. (I've been on Facebook for 6 months and found 2 people that I know!!) I graduated in 1980 - well before the internet, well before Myspace, well before Facebook, well before the personal computer! So my generation just doesn't get the whole internet craziness.

I answered her back, blah, blah, blah. But all day long I can't help but wonder - why now? She's still in Long Island - never left, two marriages and 5 kids and she is gorgeous!! ((I never even posted a picture of myself so now I'm kinda intimated to!))

Anyway, has this every happened to you? Some one that you haven't seen in almost 30 years comes back into your life. Am I reading too much into it? Or maybe I needed it for some reason that I can't see right now. hmmmmmm....................

SCRAPPY · #2 11-01-2008, 05:02 PM

I think it's great to keep in touch with old friends..

Even if it is after 30 years... I'm only 31, so I can't say that I have someone I haven't seen in almost 30 years..

TwinsForever · #3 11-01-2008, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SCRAPPY

II'm only 31, so I can't say that I have someone I haven't seen in almost 30 years..

Oh sure rub it in......................

hockey · #4 11-01-2008, 05:35 PM

I had a good friend in HS but our friendship deteriorated when she went south for college and I went north. I came back to Delaware while she ended up on the west coast. I found her on facebook last year and we caught up. It was really cool bc I still think about all the fun we had growing up. It is a little awkward though bc that is all we have in common. Her life went in a completely different direction than mine... she never married, no kids, is a busy career girl living in Seattle. We don't "talk" regularly now, just a poke or bumper sticker every once in a while.

I think it's good to find out what happened to the people you were close to.... kinda helps resolve the relationship, either for good reasons or for closure. I no longer have those strange dreams where I'm wondering what happened to her.

Green Lantern · #5 11-01-2008, 07:03 PM

I didn't really get along with many in my high school. I was like the Andrew Dice Clay on my school. Full of funny insults and put downs that would make everyone else laugh their ass off until it was their turn.

I did my thing and my of my friends suffered the consequences of it.

I got friends in trouble, locked up, suspended, in fights, etc....

Basically, I did not like anyone in my class and I am sure they did not like me. I kept in touch with only 3 people in my class and no one else.

I don't go to my reunions and I certainly don't want to get back in touch with anyone.

But that is just me.

Tracy · #6 11-01-2008, 07:17 PM

I have the same two best friends since third grade and they are really the only people from high school that I would care about getting in touch with. However, I do have an exboyfriend that I wouldn't mind getting back in touch with if I saw him...I think about him often, normally after a few martinis lol.

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