I reconnected with a friend from high school recently. It was kind of weird the way that it happened. I had been looking for this person for ages. She and I were best friends in high school. In our junior year, her family moved to another state, but she wasn’t that far away. We spent summers and long holidays together.
After graduation, we both enrolled in college. I very quickly, say after 1 class, decided that I was not in the right frame of mind to be in school and decided to take a year off. My friend was experiencing a similar situation. She eventually dropped out and came to live with me.
What happened from there was a big, long, stinky stream of ick. I will sum it up with the fact that she didn’t live with me for long and after she moved out, we didn’t speak again for well over a year. I called her up one day, just because I was thinking about her, and she told me she had had a baby and wasn’t returning to college. That was August of 1997.
After that, I thought about her often. I think you can relate if you’ve ever had that really close friend you somehow lost track of. I tried calling the old numbers, wrote the old addresses…but got nothing. And of course, I scoured the Internets looking for her.
Until about 3 weeks ago I never found a trace of her online. So one evening I am sitting here and I think, “What’re the odds she is on Myspace?” Typed in her name, and bam! There she was. I couldn’t believe it!
I sent her a message and she was thrilled to hear from me. She said she had been looking for me, too. We chatted on the phone for awhile, it was nice but a little strange.
But now, I just don’t know what to do with it. Do I try to rebuild the relationship almost 10 years after our last, stormy communication? Do we become Internet buddies? I just have no clue where it is supposed to go now.
