reconnect no reason (it's that whole idea of wanting to relive certain parts of your life as the person you are now) i'd like to reconnect with someone who i went to school with from the age of 4 to 19, but never really got to know, due to "social rules." and i was a quiet kid so i didn't know many people. but i'm not sure how to go about these things or if the boundaries still exist or matter. 110526 ... lostgirl one of my closest friends was in the same boat last year. she 'knew him to see him' in grade school, middle school and high school, but completely ran in a different circle, therefore never really knew him at all. she reconnected with him on facebook of all 'places' and guess what? they got married seven months later, and she's expecting a baby in the fall. so. go for it.....that's my advice....whether it turns into a romantic relationship or is just a regular old friendship rekindled....or even if it becomes nothing at all....at least you will have reconnected. (and that concludes my two cents worth of advice.) 110526 ... no reason interesting, lostgirl! and thanks. i like these little anecdotes. and i think you're right, i should just go for a reconnection. the worst that could happen is that it won't work, which is basically the same as now. 110526 ... no reason i've been on a strange nostalgia kick lately and also feeling old 110526 ... lostgirl i am too.... i stumbled upon a new 'service' online that lets you browse your high school and college yearbooks....talk about a trip down memory lane. (there are vividly preserved pictures.) its all there, big hair, satin jackets, leg warmers.... all of it. yikes. 110527 ... inquiring minds would like to know link? 110527 ... www. e-yearbooks.com/yearbooks 110605 ... the link does not work. 110606 ... sorry my bad! go to www.e-yearbook.com plural was the failure:) 110607 ... no reason still haven't still can't rationality goes out the window and fear blasts through when something/everything is at stake 121126 ... goosebumps sometimes the memory is better off untouched. 121127 ... no reason sometimes, but not in this case. there aren't many memories, just possibilities. i guess the word could just be "connect." 121127 ... gb in the case of promise and possibility, perhaps look at the probability of success, and the chance of missing out on a connection which was really meant to be...in other words, what are you really waiting for? 121127 ... no reason yep... that's a good question. i guess i'm waiting for the "right" time or situation. but it's not so much that i'm waiting, as avoiding out of fear. i do not like rejection. i've given myself a deadline of this year, though. 121127 ... nr i reached my goal, and it spawned a bit of nice catching up, but that was it. i'm disappointed but don't regret doing it. who knows what the future holds, i guess. i don't even know. 121226 ... nr i always found him interesting. i've known him since i was four years old; there are a bunch of us who went to elementary school all through the end of high school together, so we've known each other for 35 years. it's pretty neat. and makes me shake my head a bit in disbelief. in elementary school, i had crushes on people named david, for some reason. a coincidence, and probably not that weird since i believe david and sarah are the most common names in my birth year, but it's funny, even in adulthood, i've dated more davids than anyone with any other name. his name isn't david, so he never made the cut. har har. but i didn't ever have a silly little childhood crush on him, i don't think. i did like him as a person, even though we never really hung out. at my school, the girls mostly hung out with the girls and the boys with the boys, but that started to change a bit in grade 6 or so. i had a few male friends from about grade 6 on, and the ones i'm still in touch with are like family. i think i found out he liked me in grade 8 (he liked someone and was mysterious about it, as kids can be, and everyone wondered who it was), and i remember overhearing one of his friends find out who it was and say ever so subtly "[his name] likes [NO REASON]?" in a surprising tone. sigh. he was "cool" and well-liked, and i was shy and quiet and on the sidelines. but we were in a club together where we interacted a bit and i found his jokes funny and laughed at them. in high school, there were more people and we never really interacted. i was intimidated by him; he was still well-liked and involved in lots of clubs and student council. but he was never exclusionary and was open-minded even as a teenager. i kind of remember, even in grade 9, when he came to a couple of gatherings a friend of mine hosted, avoiding him a bit due to fear and being intimidated. sigh. but we never really hung out or got to know each other throughout all those years. years later, i friended him on facebook. years after that, i got the nerve to message him about something random and say hi. we exchanged a few catch-up messages, but that was it.  i'd like it to be more. he's just one of those people i know is a good person. he's an advocate for human rights and the environment, and probably one of the most left-leaning people i know. he's kind, smart, compassionate, funny, likes puns. kind of nerdy. from what i can tell, our personalities have met in the middle a bit more in adulthood: i'm a lot more social (interestingly, people who have met me in the past few years think i'm an extrovert, whereas growing up it would definitely not be the case) and he's become a bit calmer and more homebody-ish.  i'm so curious to reconnect with him and get to know each other as adults. but i don't know how to make this happen for real. 210930 what's it to you? who go blather from