Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Blasts from the past.................

I know with technology and things like face book, MXIT etc these days it is not unusual to find a lot of your old friends and colleagues. I have located or been located by a lot of people and in some cases people that I was very close to at one or other stage of my life. What does surprise me at times is how much I have missed of their lives and how close we still can be. There are three people in particular that I went to school with, one from Grade one to Grade twelve, and two others in High School only. I have chatted to a lot of old school friends etc over the years and we send a few lines say hi and that is that. But these three special people and I have reconnected and we talk a lot and often and we really share. These are people I grew up with that knew me when I was a kid, and a teenager. We are from all over the world now but our worlds met when we were MUCH younger and now we are catching up on each others lives. It is amazing how much we know about each other but how little. How our lives are all so different but we started in the same place at one stage or another, the memories, the children we have, the tragedies, the triumph's the photos. It is an amazing journey and I am really enjoying it, one D was my best friend for years at school I still have our grade one class photo and many other class photos all the way up to grade 12 (except for 7 & 8 when I was in boarding school) we had sleep overs we rode horses together our parents and siblings knew each other. One B was my best friend in boarding school and we lost contact when I left. The other one was my BF in grade 11, not for long when you are 15 these things don't always last. I want to thank each of you for being back in my life for the laughs we had and still have, for the sharing and caring! I wonder if the universe knows when we need people to come back into our lives for whatever reason? It sure has made me feel good! I spent an hour and a half on MXIT last night chatting to an ex colleague that I was also pretty close too, thanks to him too! It means a lot to know that so many people care and think about me it makes these creeps here at work seem very unimportant and insignificant! Finally thank you to my blogging friends the ones I have never met and the ones that were my friends already! Your caring support and great advice means a whole lot to me! Technology can be a wonderful thing!!

4 comments:

BioniKat said...

Really glad to have me you and to be able to include you in my list of friends too, Lulu.

lulu said...

THANK YOU!!

Martha said...

It is amazing as you say how technology means that people that you had long lost touch with suddenly crop up!
I am always delighted but have found only in one case have we kept in touch. You seem to have more success.
After the intial contacts there seems to be a tendency to drift again. Perhaps that is just me - but sometimes our worlds have just gone in different directions and after talking over old times we dont always seem to have much in common.
I am amazed at the friendships I have made over what started life as a dog blog!
Of course it is still a dog blog but I am touched by all the friends I have made. Perhaps it will never go beyond the internet but that doesn't seem to matter - we share moments in time xx

AngelConradie said...

It is indeed wonderful to reconnect with people who were important to you at one stage! Thats very cool indeed!