One thing I think about more often than not is old friends. Where are they? What happened with their lives?
On the face of it, it would seem simple: Use Facebook to find them. Well, that doesn't work with my friends. One was a Jehovah's Witness, she definitely won't be using Facebook. Anyway, I know she married and don't know her married name.
The other one was a good friend for years. Since grade seven. Her ethnic background was Ukrainian, her last name difficult to spell. Until you got used to it. We did all kinds of things together.
I'm sure I won't find her again. Mostly because her philosophy was, "Never look back." So she probably has put me out of her mind totally by now.
I guess my point is that it's not always easy to look back, even when you have all the tools (computer) to do it efficiently. And since all my friends were girls, there's the chance of marriage and name change as mentioned above.
So I guess I'll just have to keep them as memories, there was one more, a girl I knew in elementary school. Good memories and maybe I will see them again some day. If I ever go back to BC - a big maybe.
But forgive me if once in a while I go looking for them online just on the off chance that they're there.
Sometimes it's best to leave the past in the past. Several people from high school have tried to rekindle friendships with me but after fifty years it's difficult to find anything other than high school memories to talk about.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right, I've known some people who did find their old friends and found they didn't like them anymore. So maybe I will just give up, no shame in that.
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