I hope your week has been restful, fun, joyous, productive, and/or all the things you wanted it to be. 

 

A nice thing that's happened to me this week is that I've randomly reconnected with six different friends of mine, coincidentally all of them from high school or my early 20s. A few of them I've loosely kept in touch with over the years, the others I hadn't heard from since our school days. Yet despite not chatting with them regularly, each encounter has gone better than I could have dreamed. It's like no time has passed at all, and even though our life circumstances have changed since our youth, it's been amazing to fall back into familiar conversation, picking up right where we left off, just like old times. I'm grateful for these friends and these moments together. 

 

One conversation in particular that struck me was when my friend shared she's found it hard to make friends as an adult. I agreed it's been hard for me as well, and in fact, I've had this conversation with several people. So it got me thinking, if making new friends is hard, then why not try to reconnect with old ones? Apparently, people like hearing from old friends. I was lucky that all of my recent encounters with old friends happened naturally, but now I am inspired to pick up my phonebook (ahem, facebook) and see who from my past I can reconnect with. I don't know if I'll actually contact anyone, but my recent encounters were so promising, I may just go for it. 

 

How about you? Do you find it easy to make new friends, or would you consider reaching out to friends from your past? Feel free to reply and let me know. 

 

Cheers to a happy and healthy weekend!