Friends Lost and Found

Just think about it, we all have people from our past that have made a huge impression on us and did their bit to shape us into the person that we are today. Sadly, people often lose touch with the very people who had such a positive influence on them. People move houses, change phone numbers, switch jobs and email addresses and, despite our best intentions to keep phoning or writing, time and people move on. Often, by the time you realize a special and important individual is missing from your life it is too late and they cannot be found.
It does not have to be like this though. A good friend of mine told me the other day about an important friendship that had been rekindled recently with the help of cyberspace. Even after a period of some twenty years had gone by all it took was some nostalgic thinking time, a few details remembered and a well designed search engine and it was done; contact was regained. Furthermore, it could not have come at a more poignant time for either of them and, as they had done many times so many years before they supported each other as one was dealing with the recent death of a close family member and the other with the breakdown of a relationship with a difficult and bad tempered partner. They were both so relieved and comforted by the fact that neither had forgotten the other and that they had kept looking for one another even as the years and decades roll by. Despite now living on different continents once contact had been re-established they were able to chat and message one another regularly and it is for them, now just like old times.
As we get older we do look back over our lives and recall the people we have met along the way, some were good for us and some were maybe not so good for us. That is human nature, we all seem to be wired that way; we look forward and we look back too. It may be that you are not searching to be reunited with a lost individual friend but looking to find a group of people that were important to you at a crucial point in your life. Is there a primary, high school or university class that meant a lot to you, for example? Were you influenced by your part in a sporting team you played in way back when or colleagues from a job that meant so very much to you? Next time you’re relaxing and thinking on the commute home and someone positive and important to you that you have lost contact springs to mind, do something about it. Make that move.

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