About reconnecting, friendship, and the impact we have on others
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interesting story. the randomness of the reunion is well just crazy.
It really is - very random and very very special :-)
Lovely story! It's just great to be able to restore lost friendships!Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for reading and replying @pardinus! Restoring friendships is especially amazing since apparently that bond was able to survive time <3
Good friendships survive anything 😉
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It's odd how you get on really well with some people during a certain phase in your life, then suddenly they just disappear and years later they reappear again.
My sister in law's brother suddenly disappeared years ago leaving his wife behind. No one not even his mum heard from him Then he resurfaced many years later, and my SIL says he refused to say what happened, but he wasn't injured or tramautised or anything, just normal. Weird.
Oh wow - that is such a weird story! He left and came back and nothing really special changed in him? Weird. I'm curious if you guys will ever find out what has happened in all these years...
Interesting story and confirms the old saying.
I bumped into a friend I hadn't seen for 30+ years at a funeral.
We picked up our conversation as if no time had passed at all?
Which is rather odd when you think about it.
Neither of us are the same people we were 30+ years ago so in effect we were talking to the memories of our former selves.
That's freaky deaky 😱😂
Ha! Interesting way to put it :-) I suppose it's true... Or... Don't we actually change that much at all despite all those years going by? :-)
It depends or a lot of variables. Life chances are an important part of who we may become. Memory is also very tricky in as much as it is not fixed but continues to develop and adapt so really our memories are memories of our memories ad infinitum.
On a purely cellular level our bodies replace every single cell every 7 - 10 years and our skin is renewed every few weeks. So on a cell level we are not the same person at all. :-)
It is amazing that we can still maintain relationships at all when you think about it? Fascinating topic Rosa.
It's pretty philosophical :-) But our characters/personalities have been proven to be pretty stable during life - maybe some scales slide a bit, but overall we tend to stay 'the same' - indeed memories and body cells are in development all the time - so what stays and what goes is in constant movement :-) It's pretty interesting to find people to never change though - their looks change, but something, often that spark in their eyes, makes them them.
There is a theory/belief that if you see a child at seven years old. Then you will see the person that they will become?
While this is a popular theory/belief and makes interesting TV. There is little evidence to support it other than anecdotal accounts.
There are so many things that can happen in life that can knock people way off of their original potential trajectory.
I agree with your point to a degree:-
Underneath all the life experiences people may have. There does seem to be a 'core' of the person that survives, unless they suffer from Alzheimer's or some other dementia or degenerative disease.
Then we truly see the importance of memory and how we are often defined by those memories.
With Alzheimer's that is stripped away and the sufferer and the family is left with nothing except the memory of who that person was.
With 1/3 of us expected to suffer with one of these diseases it is a sobering thought.
Happy Saturday.
PS I had to say something funny. This is way to depressing lol
Life is full of surprises as it says, Friendship is one of the most sweet relation may much more than in terms of opening our heart to the spouses.
And real friendships are never going to fade, and it is just a matter of time to resume it from where it lost even after years since the hearts of absolute friendships always sings in harmony and may be what we can call the best synchronized thoughts between two human beings.
Your parents are lucky and all those who reads this can be realized the exact feeling of them when they met those lost friends in one of the most surprising way one can ever imagine.
Thanks for sharing and cheers
Yes - beautiful comment @angelro! Thanks for that. My parents are really lucky and I'm incredibly happy for them :-)
@soyrosa, so strange and exciting!
I just had to comment on this lovely story.
My own is also great in it's own way.
I was in the army and formed a great friendship with another guy, we supported each other in all that we did. After we left the army I never saw him again and kept thinking about him over the years.
One night I was invited as a guest speaker at one of the big charity conventions and afterwards a big guy with a long beard and his wife approached me.
It was my long lost friend and we were overjoyed.
Sadly two weeks later he passed away, as he had cancer.
Such is life I presume.
Glad that you guys were re-connected to your old friends.
Blessings!
Oh my @papilloncharity - how special that you met your friend again - just in time before he left this life. That must feel like he was there just to be able to reconnect and say goodbye. Some people leave a lasting impression... Thanks for sharing this amazing story!
Thank you my friend and at times friends are like seasons in life.
They appear when needed.
Blessings!
That's just way cool, for all involved.
It's amazing to me that the couple chose to break away to mend themselves away from external influence. In my experience, most don't take that step.
So the result is amazing. I'm really happy for you, your parents and your parents friends. A wonderful result.
Friendship is not enough for me. #justsaying so you know.
We'll see what's left of that sentiment in 25 years :')
Deal, I wait for you. :)
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Wow. Coincidence? Fate?
Which ever one, I love life’s little surprises.😊
Right?! Me too. I actually feel really grateful, especially for my parents to be able to connect again with people who made a lasting impact <3 It's a beautiful thing.