I know a lot of people but I find it really difficult to maintain contact with most of them. I can manage a few in my close circle and some acquaintances but definitely not more than 20 people.
It doesn’t take much time for the gap to widen and before you know it they’ll start treating you like a stranger.
So I was thinking whether there’s something like the for relationships.
Maybe finding out the optimal time interval can help me set reminders to connect with a few people now and then.
Well this was just a though that randomly came to me. I thought I’d ask the wonderful people over here.
I don’t, tbh.
Not out of any principle. I’m not, like, eager to be rid of past friends or anything. But if they slip away, well, it just be like that.
I’m more than content to Ship of Theseus my way through life’s transient relationships. You keep some longer than others. New people take the place of long missing ones. That’s just the cycle. It’s fine. Just hang on to the ones you can, and that’s enough. You can’t keep them all around forever.
I’m always receptive to meeting old faces. But I’m not discoverable on any public socials, and I don’t live where most of my old friends were. (And neither do they, for the most part.) So opportunities for it are extremely rare.