where the past coexists with the present

It used to be that once you lost touch with people, that was it. Losing their phone number or address more or less meant that you’d spend the rest of your days searching through phone books on business trips to this city or that city, hoping that you might chance upon their information somewhere down the line…Gone are the days when one’s past simply stayed there. Now, through the magic (if you want to call it that) of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and the like you can reconnect with all sorts of folks you honestly never thought would play a role in your life ever again. You can feel 18 again or 21 or 12 as you recall with fondness through rose colored lenses how things used to be. How you used to be. What develops is rather fascinating. . .virtual friendships with people you once had tangible relationships with. Your past comes back to life in a very interesting way. I’m in the midst of trying to figure how best to fit the past in with my present…to have the two coexist peacefully, rationally, realistically…