Meeting friends

Meeting up with friends has become very difficult. Actually, is it really?

Keeping in touch with someone is usually a simple affair. If it's someone you love, you'd want to pick up your phone the moment you wake up just to hear his/her voice. If it's your mom, you'd think twice. Just kidding.

In this day of technology and SMSes, you would think that keeping in touch is a piece of cake. Yet, reports of people who say they are disconnected from the world (even with mobile and email, yes!) are aplenty. Does that mean that the technological boom has backfired on us? Unwittingly, perhaps.

Yesterday, i picked up my phone to SMS a friend I hadn't heard from in a couple of months and we agreed to meet up to play badminton and have tea. It was simple. It just took an SMS to reestablish contact. Of course, though, it makes a difference that he actually replied! Now, if he didn't... then, well... you get the idea. It takes two hands to clap.

At this tender age of 24 (old or not?) i've cut down my circle of friends to a few close ones and of course my bf. Then there are those whom i speak to mainly online because they're not in Singapore and then more others whom have meant something special to you (not in a relationship sort of way but just made a difference). Beyond that, acquaintances from primary school up to University remain far out of reach. A phone call might be in order, but does that person really want to hear from you?

It certainly does make me wonder.