Author: Sophie
Huet (---.123-202-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca)
Date: 02-03-03
14:38
Speaking by personal experience, this site has allowed
me to reconnect (roughly speaking) with some old friends from high
school. I say roughly speaking just because it hasn't come to an
official reconnecting in person, only by email. I'm always extremely
amazed about what people are doing of their lives now, people who
have kids (and God knows it's not on my list right now!) and people
who bought their first house or have amazing careers...
I
say this because I got an email (as a Happy New Year present) in my
inbox at the beginning of the year from my very best friend in the
whole world from high school whom I hadn't spoken to in almost 10
years... Although very shocked (but at the same time, oh so happy!),
it got me thinking. All those years I had wondered about what she
was up to and every year, on her birthday, I would think of her, not
knowing exactly where she was. When I got her email, she had left
her phone number. So I went ahead and I called her, leaving all of
our adolescent problems behind. I ended up talking to a girl, I
realized, barely knew nothing about. Time had put us in two totally
different paths, leading us to speaking to someone who had grown and
changed and who had experienced different things over time. Although
I was exstatic to talk to her, I felt as though I was talking to
somebody completely different. She had taken the high road, and me,
the quiet one. She'd been in Montreal for years, and, only for a
couple. I suddenly realized how destiny works...
We have yet
to reconnect in person. She sent me pictures, I did the same. We
both concluded that we had changed but not that much. I'm just
curious to see where this encounter will lead us. Will it throw oil
on the fire and rekindle that very precious friendship or will it
just bring us the closure that we had needed for all those
years...?
I was wondering if the same happened to you. Did
you reconnect with people whom you thought were such good friends in
high school but then realized, after so many years, that you don't
have anything in common and that it's sad to see that this is never
gonna end up anywhere...? Or did the contrary happen? I mean it's
always fun to reconnect the first evening or two but did that
reconnection rekindle even stronger the friendship you had in the
past?
Sophie :)
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