Finding Some Old Friends

My 30 Day Challenge is having a number of interesting ancillary benefits.

As part of the immersion into the whole social networking things, I’ve been signing up for, or activating old accounts with, Facebook, Friendfeed, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

While signing up for Facebook, I ran into about a dozen of my friends from high-school, which I haven’t talked to since 1979. Not such a big deal until you realize my high-school graduating class was only about 42 students, and the school was International School Nido de Aguilas in Santiago Chile.

We graduated in December of 1978, and this year will be 30 years since graduation. Wow.

It was a blast getting signed up, exchanging a few messages, and seeing a little bit about how things have gone since then.  Patty Larrondo was the first to find I’d signed up on Facebook, and soon spread the word that I’d been ‘found’.  I didn’t even know I was lost, but the truth is: she’s right.

I was a little lost.

These were some of the best friends, and best times I’d ever had, and make no bones about it - I’ve lived all over the world, and Santiago, Chile is as good as it gets.  How I let all these great friends and relationships slip away is a shame, but let’s see if I can’t do something about it. I’ve got a new personal goal (as if the 30 day challenge, and the 30 lbs in 30 days isn’t enough) - each week I’m going to hunt down at least two friends from my past that I’ve been out of touch with, and see what I can to do resuscitate the relationship.

Thank you Patty, thank you Facebook, and thank you 30 Day Challenge.