Over the years, many friends have come and gone. Some of them were deep and some of them were more acquantanceships. Somehow, life changes, and as life changes some things move out of our life as other things move in….
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Between changing schools, careers, and moving, important relationships sometimes get lost. This can happen as easily as a computer crash or unfortunate circumstance as both lives change at the same time. So when you decide to rekindle an old friendship,…
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A meeting of Opposites. I met someone recently on the electronic highway. A chance meeting, an online touching of shoulders in passing. We stopped talked a while and then moved on recognising no common bond. I thought about it as…
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Not every person missing is the victim of a crime, not all who are lost are trying to remain hidden. Sometimes all it takes to reunite lost loves is a little work and a nose for details. The trick to…
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Finding friends online can be an enjoyable and memorable experience. Many Americans have admitted that the friends they have met online are their closest confidants because when you have an online friend, you aren’t distracted by how they look (or…
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MILES He stood by the bar of what this little town considered a fine restaurant, sipping brown microbrew ale and listening idly to snippets of the faux-friendly patter swirling around him. Annual get-together with old high school classmates, this, started…
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Friendship is very important to me and I take it very seriously. I don’t think that we ever outgrow true friendships. There are, of course, factors which cause a friendship to end. A fight or arugment, for example, could cause…
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How does one define friendship? To me, friendships can be forged between family members, husbands and wives, co-workers, classmates and so forth. For the purpose of this article, however, I will restrict the definition of friendship to this : frienship…
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Like most things with the internet, there can be some good and some bad. With the internet, there is a wealth of intformation available at your fingertips. This is good. Unfortunately, a lot of “information” on the internet is less…
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Why it is important to get to know your neighbors. Society has taken on a transient form with people moving from city to city in search of better jobs. With people moving away from their relatives and families, they live…
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It’s difficult to let go of someone you’ve grown up with, depended on, and just cherished being around. But despite how often we wish we could remain in touch, the lives of those so dear to us eventually move in…
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I once read an email that described how people play different roles in our live; some people are a constant, necessary force in our lives; some people who touch us at important moments, when we truly need them; and those…
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It would seem that the overwhelming majority of contributors to this topic of friends becoming lovers focus on situations where two people begin a relationship as friends, eventually fall in love, and get married. This certainly can happen; and undoubtedly…
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Everyone has probably already some friends from childhood and know that social contact is important to get more friends. Friends are valuable in our lives but you may encounter several problems when you search for more friends. It might seem…
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Neighborhoods have changed. They once consisted of people who shared family ties, grew up together, or worked for the same factory in town. Neighbors could rely on each other in times of crisis. They shared gossip, cups of tea, ballgames…
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We are in a very accelerated time of change. I have learned to go with the flow. Some people that I thought would be here on the path with me have fallen away and new people are arriving all the…
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GET YOUR NEIGHBORS TOGETHER Somewhere deep in my memory banks is a recollection of friendly streets: returned ‘hellos’, homemade cookies, and help with deflated bicycle tires from the people on my block. We never locked our doors, and neighbors felt…
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In many ways, cities and suburbs try to mimic the ambience, romanticism, and even the look of country life. One thing urban dwellers can learn from their country cousins is how to be neighborly. History shows that inhabitants of tiny…
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The community of the 1950’s is long gone and we do not socialize with our neighbors as prior generations did. With busy work schedules, soccer practice and the Internet it is difficult to find time to turn the folks next door from…
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On the roof of the loft – the flat an ever-changing collection of Dan Kessler’s friends occupy – he sings a song about one of the occupants with whom he is developing a romantic attachment. I have trouble listening to…
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