Being in touch with friends

I find it very funny about how we can be keeping in touch with our friends; long gone, faraway, and old ones.

True that technology helps us a lot; internet, telephone, even old-fashioned letter mail keep us in touch with our friends. But technology is just one of means, passive, a gun which needs a trigger puller. It is not a hard thing to come up with prove. Do you realize how thick your name cards collection is? How much the telephone numbers' list in your cellphone? So, how often do you contact the person who got those coordinate.... How many of them you called because you need them? How many of them you called because you miss them? - missing is also kind of need, our heart is telling us that it needs something to address - How many of them you called or contacted simply to say HELLO.

Anyway, we keep them in touch. Another way of keeping in touch with the very existence of your friends is dreaming about them. Unlike the "more sophisticated ways" people use nowadays this way of "contacting" is active. Functioning without us asking them to. It popped up when we least expecting. The dream connects us with a friend that we never met for zillion of years, it brings us to a time when we are "still friends". Not only it is self-propelling, the dream is sometimes also induces us to something further; MAKING a "real" contact with our friends; be it calling, sending email, or maybe just thinking about them, remember that we still have them in our heart.

I am quite happy with my recent "disorder"; light-sleeping. It makes me dream a lot, and that opens a huge window of opportunity to see my friends, the one that I don't even remember....(and I still refer to them as friends?)

Salam.