Keeping in touch with old friends

I have been fortunate all my life because I have always had many true friends. One of the many advices my father gave me was that true friendship is a real treasure.
Just like in any human relationship, a friendship must be cultivated; and on that very important part of friendship sometimes I haven't been very good at.

In the course of our lives we move to other places, move to other jobs and endeavors, and do different transitions and shifts; all this can separate you from your friends; we all have experienced that at least once in our lives.
In my case, every time I see one of my old friends it is as if we last met yesterday, even though many years may have passed since our last handshake. I've always believed that this is a characteristic of true friendship; it shows that two friends love each other regardless of space and time.

Even though the latter is true, it is always good to keep in touch with your old friends. I definitely haven't been very good at this; always the everyday life commitments, work, family; the whole modern-productive-grown up life has kept me from regularly keeping in touch with them, and oftentimes the same have kept them from regularly keeping in touch with me......but, you know?; lately I have reached the conclusion that this is just an excuse.
It is a matter of organizing our lives a little bit more; in a way, I think that if we can schedule keeping in touch with our old friends like we do schedule our meetings and client phone calls, I think we can succeed in this..

So, I have decided to schedule, at least initially, one hour every week to send emails to old friends. I have decided to schedule this in the same way and with the same amount of detail that I schedule all the stuff of my job: I've chosen Saturdays, and on this next Saturday I will contact Antonio (Antonio is my best friend from school, we know each other since we were kids. Funny thing is, I had lost contact with him and, out of the blue, I knew of him from Facebook about two months ago; I sent him a message, he messaged me back, and I have pending to send him a message several weeks now..., and after I send him a message, I will schedule my next Saturday.

Try this with your friends; schedule a day per week to send an email to one, or maybe two of your friends, and; after you mark this task as "done", schedule your next week's friend(s) email(s) or phone call(s). Keeping in touch with our old friends is a good thing. it'll keep our friends close to our hearts. Now, I truly suspect that it'll cause them to contact us back more often too.

Thanks for reading.........

PD

I will let you know about Antonio