How do you find old friends you've lost touch with over the years?
Sending Greeting Cards has become popular and trendy as people get tired of the electronic world. A quick look through Instagram will show you thousands of beautiful cards, either one-of-a-kind handmade beauties, or cards you can modify by adding your name before having them printed. This is awesome for those wanting to send real life birthday cards or thank you notes or Christmas cards to friends, neighbors, relatives and relations.
But what do you do when you want to reconnect with a long lost love, or a dear friend you have not seen for years?
How can you find that friend? With the advent of the internet, you might well succeed. Here's a list of options:
- Gather all the info you can remember. Did your friend join the military, did your friend go on to college? Did you friend speak of visiting relatives in a particular town, or state? Did you friend mention a summer camp they attended regularly? What line of work was your lost chum heading towards? What about names of family members, neighbors who lived near the home of your favorite classmate? Favorite teachers, all this can come into play and help you find your companion, your colleague, your roommate, your early years playmate.
- Check Facebook. If you can't find your long lost schoolmate by name, see if your high school has a page. Many times you can find a highschool Facebook just for graduates of your particular graduating year. Even Junior High Schools and Elementary Schools may have pages of their own. A quick join and a post in any of these groups may help you find your friend. Localities have pages too in many cases. There may be a (your town) Back in the Day page or a Your City Memories of the Past Page. Check all those and scan the list of members, or simply make a post asking about the wherabouts of your bosom buddy lost to you now for so many years. At the very least, you may find familiar names you can connect with. Maybe a friend of a friend knows how to find your target, that girl who was your best friend or BFF in elementary school, but who moved on to a different middle school well before the internet was available to keep us all connected. Surely with all the electronics and methods we have today, you can finally connect again with your special peeps.
- Do a general Google search for the name of that best buddy you have been looking for. Even if your friend has moved away, perhaps you can remember a state that friend used to visit. If it's a very popular name, throw the name of that state, or a likely city or town, into your search to narrow things down. If you can't find the friend's name, check their sister, their brother, their mother, their father. One of these may lead you to the friend you have wanted to reach for years.
- Connect with the Friends you can find. If you can't find a particular friend from the past, see if you can locate a friend you had in common. Maybe that person can be a resource and will know how to locate your friend.
- Attend reunions. This could be a long term game. Some people are hard to find, but if you can plan to attend a reunion coming up in a year or two, you can put the word out there, even if your friend does not show. Face-to-face communication has no substitute. It helps you to make contacts and can work miracles.
- Check with a college, a community college or a professional organization your friend is likely to be a part of. Info available there might lead you straight to your long lost love, or to someone who can help.
- Ask a teacher or a church leader. Some people still communicate with some of their favorite teachers or church youth leaders, perhaps sending Christmas Cards, year after year. If one of the teachers from your old school is in touch with students from years back, maybe that teacher can help out.
Whatever you do, keep looking for that special person you have been missing for decades. Powerful things can happen when you reconnect.
What do you do after you have found your friend from years ago?
When you have finally found your friend, send a nice Thinking-of-You card, or maybe a Birthday Card. If one of the things you remember about your good friend is which day they were born, and if another thing you can remember is that they studied a second language, you may want send a card in Italian or Russian or Swedish, or whatever. English is not the world's only language!
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