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Reconnect with an Old Friend

Reconnect with an Old Friend

Many times we find ourselves thinking about the people we used to know and wondering what they are doing. Back several years ago, if you or your friends moved away, and you didn’t have their address, there was a good chance you would never see them again. Even if you did have their address, writing letters was time consuming and tedious, so eventually you would probably stop writing and lose touch.

That is not the case at all anymore. With multiple social networks all over the internet, it is much easier to get back in touch with your friends. I personally have reconnected with a lot of my old school friends online. You don’t even have to know where someone lives anymore. Most peoples profiles have pictures on them so all you have to know is the persons first and last name to find them.

Also cell phone plans have changed a lot over the last few years. Most cell phone plans have free long distance, so as long as your friends still live in the country you can call them for the same price as your friend down the street. You could start out by contacting them through one of their online profiles, and then through chatting find out their phone number. This could lead to hours of fun conversations and revisiting the old jokes that would make you laugh until you cried.

People think that as time passes it can become to late to contact an old friend. They think their friends will not remember them, or they will have moved on and not want to revisit the past. Well this is almost never the case. Most people do not forget others they were close with, no matter how much time passes. They will most likely be glad to hear from you and want to know what you have been up to all these years. These conversations might even lead to a meet up were you can get together and hang out like you used to.

Whether it is through the internet or phone or both, reconnecting with friends can be a major source of happiness.  I’ve lost touch with people for a few years, reconnected and picked up right where we left off. I have still stayed close with one friend that I once lost touch with, and still to this day consider her one of my best friends.

Surprise Someone Special

Surprise Someone Special

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Everyone wants to feel loved, to feel like they are someone special. There has probably been times in your life where someone special did something really nice for you to cheer you up, or to just show they care. Why not repay the favor and do something nice for someone special in your life.

Doing something nice can be as big or as small as you want. You could buy tickets for an event they want to see or take them out to dinner at their favorite place. It could also be as simple as picking up their favorite kind of cookies and surprising them with it. In fact doing something nice could cost nothing at all. You could hand make them something thoughtful such as a collage of photos, or a video of funny memories. It could even be as simple as offering to go for a walk with them to get away when they have had a bad day.

Now some of you are probably thinking, “I’m single, I don’t have a special someone.” Somehow i doubt thats true. Even if you are not dating someone or married, I am sure there is someone in your life you are close with. Someone you hang out with often and who knows everything about you. This could be anyone from a family member to a close friend. What matters is that they are important and special to you.

A very important part about caring about someone is showing them that. One of the best ways to do that is to go out of your way every once in awhile and do something nice for them. Remember that if you are nice to others, they will be nice to you. Maybe one day someone special will treat you to dinner, or surprise you with your favorite snack.

Call on a Friend

Call on a Friend

call-on-a-friendBottling your emotions seems like a good thing to a certain extent because you know that if you told your boss what you really think about his new company plan, you would probably get yourself fired. However doing this is kind of like filling up a water bottle. There is only so much you can hold, and eventually it all comes out and makes a big mess. These explosions of feelings also don’t tend to come at the most opportune times either.

To avoid embarrassing yourself with sudden outbursts, it is better to get these feelings out before they build up. Letting your feelings build up to the point where they explode can sometimes lead to very undesirable consequences. This can be anything from getting your best friend so mad that they don’t talk to you for a month, to losing your job because you talked back to your boss.

Talking to a good friend, spouse, significant other, or close family member when you are feeling upset or angry is a good way to keep from loosing your lid. However often you are too busy to drop what you are doing and make a phone call. If you have unlimited texting, I find a good thing to do in this situation is to send a long text out to some of your close friends venting your feelings. Often at least one of them will write back quickly with reassuring words or just something to make you smile.

However if you do not have unlimited texting, this option can cause even more stress when you get that phone bill at the end of the month. (Texting can get rather expensive). If this is the case, a good idea might be to write an email to one of your close friends just letting them know you had a bad day, and to just write you back when they get your message. Although the response might not be immediate (people tend to check their phones more than their email), at least you got your feelings out and avoided getting yourself in an potentially embarrassing or unpleasant situation.

Getting out your feelings little by little as they happen could also make you a happier person, since you are dealing with your feelings as they come and not walking around being mad all the time.