Lost touch

It's hard to keep track of people.  There are only so many meaningful relationships that anyone can keep track of, let alone nurture, and inevitably, you lose touch with one another.  It gets even harder when you move away or get a new job or start a relationship or a new family.

There are lots of people that I have lost touch with.  Classmates, distant relatives, friends.  It's almost always nice to bump into them and catch  up.  (Let's face it, sometimes it's not so nice to see how they've changed...or you have.)  There are people that you sometimes expect to run into when you go certain places.  There are people that you find in the most unexpected places or unexpected times.

Sometimes, there are times when you think of someone and you wonder where they are, and they somehow reappear, as if just thinking about them brought them back into existence.

Sometimes you think of them, then find they are gone, and it's too late to think of them earlier.