Reconnection

I've been debating.

On FB, I recently reconnected with three of my friends from school. I cannot begin to say how excited I am about this. Primarily because I have one friend I have kept in continuous contact with since high school. I see her about once every three/four months. Things & people change and she lives in Seattle now--not the far away, but not just up the road, either.

I admit that I let things drop. I hate communicating via telephone. My guess is that if you drug me to some therapist, I would probably qualify for phone phobia, whatever nifty scientific name it may be. Probably also why I couldn't hack working Hell-Tech (TeleTech).

What is funny is that I found a former class mate. They lived up the road from me from about second grade to about seventh. One girl was in my class and I was pretty good friends with her. I got along with all her sisters, actually, sans the youngest because she was the youngest and didn't go to school. The next to youngest was particularly sweet.

I ran across her journal and have seriously thought about sending her a note. It just seems so weird since I haven't seen her in like 25 years. I'm still debating about it but here is the crux.

I need to reconnect because as it stands now, my friends via the church, are all my mothers age. While this is fine and I don't mind, I also crave the need to mingle with those my age or close to it, as well. I've shut myself off sometimes horribly because I enjoy solitude (yeah, that is probably why some at DVR would claim I sucked as a counselor---bullshit!!)

So I've been debating on how to go about it. I would love to reconnect with her. She still seems to be the sweet person she always was. I just wonder...

Mindy, legend of the seeker