It doesn’t matter if you haven’t seen each other for months or years, when you connect with long-time friends both time and distance melt away. There is no awkward silence, no getting up to speed, the friendship just moves forward as if it was just yesterday that you last connected.
I don’t have many friends like this, but I cherish the ones that I have. They are my family, just not by blood. As I get older, I value these connections more… Maybe because they happen less frequently, maybe because I see how precious such friendships are. Moments spent with good lifelong friends are moments that accumulate to keep life feeling rich and fulfilled.
The trick is not to wait for special events to get you together. Find opportunities to meet, to holiday, to connect for no other reason than to be together. Special events don’t happen often enough, and while distance and time may disappear when you connect weather it has been a short or long time apart, the longer apart you spend, the less time you’ll have together. So, make the time for the friends that matter.
That’s wonderful Claudia!
I use WhatsApp with my sisters and mom. We weren’t using it until the pandemic, and now I can’t imagine not being connected with them in this way. Great that you are still so connected with your schoolmates.
With my former schoolmates, we keep an active WhatsApp group. Meetings ideas abound. Great talks f2f and laughter online. FB is the place for photos. We all look as if time did not pass by. A family of sorts at the difficult times also, yeah.