Reconnecting

Reconnecting with people from the past can be so fun!
Facebook has been a wonderful tool for that.
How strange it to have people that at one time of your life were involved in the day to day and now it seems we have not talked in years, some as much as 20 years!
I believe and always have believed that people come in and out of ones life for a reason.
Example, one person who I have recently found on line was instrumental in my conversion to the LDS religion. His son and I dated, he and his wife were so kind to me at a point in my life when I really needed a "family example" to be around.
Another gal I found was not a super close friend in HS, she was in the "A" crowd and I was the wanna be. I used to think she did not like me, maybe she did I don't know. I can tell you this, I would not want my daughters to hang out with who I was then. I am such a changed person, but in some ways still the crazy Italian I have always been.
Another person I have been trying to find was a super close friend of mine while I was a nanny in Connecticut.I spent so much time with her and her family, again still trying to stay close to the family thing.
I have found High School friends, who I have not talked to since the 80's! These people have all been living life, getting married, having babies, going to college, starting careers, buying homes all the same stuff we all do. Life just has a way of intertwining our roots, and sometimes we meet up and sometimes we don't. I hope that this year I can say that I have made a difference in the lives of those around me, those I am reconnecting with, and those I have yet to meet.