A while ago I wrote about a website that I re-discovered after someone sent me an eMail commenting about it – it’s the MOMO page that you can find here on this blog.
Today I am not talking about the site though but about real people, old friends that keep reappearing. The last few months I got invitations on Facebook and Xing like websites (I think I registered on about half a dozen of those sites, but don’t use all of them all the time) from friends I have not seen in 10 years or more. You can argue of course whether I should call them friends, and probably I won’t talk with many of them any more after exchanging some eMails. But it IS nice nonetheless to be reminded of your past, of people you hung out with and spent part of your life. It is also interesting to see that (those that bother to register on those types of sites) all made their own in their life, some on more involved paths, some on more straightforward ones. Guess that one of the costs of moving around a lot is that you tend to have serial friends, only very few survive more than one or two moves to other countries. Which in a sense is good, as it gives you “space” to make new friends and connections, but on the other hand it is sad, because many of the people you met are worth keeping, many more than you end up staying in contact.
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