It’s great fun to reconnect with people, but I’m beginning to see why one loses contact with friends they once knew. Time is a significant factor in your ability to maintain relationships, past and present, and do them justice.
I love Facebook. The reconnection rate is much greater than if you tried to scan the internet looking for who knows who. However, I’m beginning to see that reconnecting is becoming frustrating for me, in a sense. When I find someone who had a significant place in the prior years of my life, I am quite excited to reconnect with them. I want to know what they’re up to and all the rest that comes with catching up. The frustrating part? I feel I cannot and have not done justice to the relationships I have reconnected with. I feel I have left school mates, cousins, acquaintances, church family, etc. hanging by a thread after my initial act of communication. I want to do more than say, “Hey, I found you – what are you up to?” I want them to know I interrupted their life because they played a significant part in mine. But, life as I know it doesn’t leave much time to give adequate attention to each contact individually… yet.
So… I guess the purpose of this post is to say, if anyone out there has received a “Hey – what are you up to?” from me recently, it is my goal to follow up. Hopefully I can fit it in between the brain surgery, dirty dishes, writing projects and tonight’s birthday celebrations. Until then, know I’m thinking about you and in some way or another, you’re special to me.
If you’d like to know a bit about what Ken and I have been up to recently, you can catch our ‘journeying journal’ on Facebook in the groups section entitled, “Where in the US of A are the Woodbridges Wandering Today”.
Sherri
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