Story I reached out to one of my oldest friends

[rntmss]

Sorry for the long-winded story, but this kind of brought my spirits up. I just wanted to share it with you guys.

Today, I logged into my email account from middle school. I was going through my contacts and saw so many people I haven't talked to or seen in almost 2 decades.

I came across one of my dearest friend's account. I immediately reached out. Me and her were pretty close through 7th and 8th grade, but slowly grew apart as we went to different schools. We'd still talk from time to time when she'd pop on Facebook or MSN Messenger. She eventually deleted her Facebook account and MSN Messenger just wasn't a thing anymore. We just stopped talking.

A couple of years ago, I ran into her outside a sports event downtown. She didn't recognize me at first because this was almost 15 years since we last saw each other and I was 100 lbs heavier and had a beard...but her face lit up as soon as I mentioned my name. It was so nice to see her again. Turned out, she went to find one of my social media accounts later that night but I never got the message until weeks later because of my privacy settings.

I responded but she was never active on the account since.

So I wrote her an email today saying that I was trying to catch up with old friends and I missed her.

I am so hopeful that she'll respond. I hope she doesn't think I'm trying anything romantic because our friendship was very platonic. We were just two sports loving kids.

It felt so nice to think that I might talk to one of my oldest friends again.

 

[Jean4]

I'm proud of you! It couldn't have been easy to do that. I know I wouldn't have the guts to do so!

Good luck. I hope she writes back and please let us know!

 

[rntmss]

I'm proud of you! It couldn't have been easy to do that. I know I wouldn't have the guts to do so!

Good luck. I hope she writes back and please let us know!

I hope she still uses that account! I will definitely finish the story if there is one!

 

[Jean4]

I hope she still uses that account! I will definitely finish the story if there is one!

I have my fingers and toes crossed!!!

 

[Otter]

I hope she still uses that account! I will definitely finish the story if there is one!

Are you in the US?

 

[rntmss]

Are you in the US?

Canada

 

[Otter]

Canada

There is a website called truepeoplesearch.com and I have been able to find several High School classmates for a class reunion. It's free as long as you don't click on any of the names in the bottom boxes that redirect you to another site. Just stay on the top boxes when the names appear. It lists possible addresses, ph numbers, email adds. I'm in the US so I don't know if it works in Canada, but good luck!

 

[enjoy]

hope it all works out!

 

[BPD Barbie]

Good luck, it's so nice to get reignited with old friends. You shared so many memories and stories together when you were younger, let us know how it goes

 

[rntmss]

She responded! She wants to catch up! This is quite the light in my darkest time.

 

[rntmss]

This has been such a good experience. I literally didn't think she even remembered who I was... and here she is asking me things that I didn't even talk to her about. For example: she knew I got married. She knew that I moved from the suburbs that we went to school in and into the city. Someone's been keeping tabs on me...
Not going to lie: knowing that a friend who I haven't had a meaningful conversation with in over a decade still checked up on me from time to time really makes me happy.