Should we leave the past...in the past?

I've been searching for something to write about other than the fact that I did the washing and cleaned the bathroom on Saturday...I've pretty much come up with NOTHING! That's right, Evette doesn't have anything to say...Ok...before you start catching flies as your chin has hit the ground in total and utter shock and horror (ok...amazement) that I don't have anything to say, let me clarify...I don't have anything to say that is overly interesting...but I've come up with something.

About 2 weeks ago I received an email from a previous life inviting me to join facebook...Now I've received about 20 of these things in the last 5 years and most have them have been from my cousin. No one else that I know uses them and it's just a waste of time...but the next day I received another one from a girl I used to work with at Starbucks...this of course has me interested...Jen...I get emails from all the time...Jill...ok...this might be worth looking into...so I joined...and it is So Cool!

I moved around quite a bit when I was younger and have lost contact with an awful lot of people. Since joining facebook I'm now in contact with some of those people again...which I think is very cool.

I was talking about this with a co-worker and we got into a discussion about these types of applications. Classmates, Friends Re-United...they're pretty much the same but Facebook is different as its FREE! I think that is why it has taken off so well. But our discussion went on to discuss the type of people you get back in contact with. She made a very valid point and mentioned that peoples marriages have broken up because they've got in contact with a past flame and have decided to go back to them. She said that the past is called the past for a reason and that's where it should be left.

I'm not so convinced...sure marriages have broken apart because of this...but marriages have broken apart because of the Young secretary or the Sexy Pool boy...I don't see that meeting up with the past will be the definite cause of a marriage to break up. Usually there is an underlying cause and something will trigger it in the end.

I think it's great that I'm now in contact with friends that I've lost touch with. I'm such a nosey person and I love that you can see who your friends have become friends with and pictures are being posted and all sorts...friendly banter across a number of friends. I've now got 56 friends and a couple are even people I had completely forgotten about (this is what happens as you get older!)

But why be afraid of the past when you can rekindle friendships that you thought were lost long ago just because you never got around to writing that letter or email or picking up the phone...why not have another go with those friends.

The only danger that lies there is forgetting that we all change as time goes on...nothing will be exactly as it was (but that would be boring!)

To all my friends who I've re-found in the past couple of months!