[4109] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: letting friendships slide
mhpower@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 27 15:44:15 1993
>Don't hesitate to get in touch, even after a long lapse.
>...
um, not convinced...
I had two friends in high school. One of them called me a while later
to ask if I was going to the class reunion. Other than "yes" or "no",
there wasn't any interest in talking to me, before, during, or after.
A year and a half ago, the other figured out sending me mail from
CompuServe. I got a couple of messages including a nice letter about
(mostly) life in Israel, which I saved. And we made arrangements to
get together in Boston to talk, but the plans got canceled and never
rescheduled. Neither of us has heard from the other since then.
The first friend I had after high school, I actually called once after
losing touch. The conversation seemed liberally interspersed with
"actually, I never thought I'd hear from you again", and, well,
thoughts have a way of coming true after a while, sometimes...
Shortly after that I somehow came up with the closest friend I've ever
had, who, unfortunately (near as I can tell) disappeared off the face
of the earth 4 years, 1 month, and 9 days ago. But who's counting? :-)
And anything more recent, I won't mention here. The people involved
could easily be reading this meeting, and they deserve better than
whatever nice-but-superficial comment I could fit here.
Actually, they deserve much better.
