A Re-Connection With A Friend From the Distant Past Begins

Earlier this year I received an email on my classmates.com personal site I set up. Mark G was an excellent and great friend that I had lost touch with over the last couple of decades. He came upon my information and contacted me. After a few months of not hearing back from him, he got back in contact with me and explained he had suffered the misfortune of the demise of his computer and the subsequent retrieval of lost emails and bookmarks is as always a tedious and time consuming process that results in some items not being addressed or paid attention to immediately. I have had this misfortune myself and have learned to take a few pre-emptive measures to make things slightly easier when a computer dies, but it is always a hassle and then some.

Mark and I worked together from 1979-1981 and shared a lot of fun experiences together; many were typical of young adults of that era and all were not exactly the most responsible and forward thinking actions one should aspire to. But we are all guilty of some youthful indescretions and immature foolishness and it is nothing to regret or look harshly upon in self-reflection. Our friendship and shared activities continued into the 1980s even as he went away to school out of state for a couple of years. However I left NM in 1987 and lost touch with him as I moved around to several places over the years.

One of the great things about the Worldwide Web and the Internet is that it facilitates being able to re-connect with people in ones past that one has lost contact with and fairly easily. It is certainly great to be able to have this wonderful experience of starting to touch base again with someone from ones past.