The net has opened up an amazing plethora of possibilities - with the advent of networking sites like orkut, facebook, myspace et al on the www, its been a whole lot easier to catch up people from the college, high-school and even your kindergarden days.
How much of people you want to re-acquaint yourself with, is something of a personal choice. I've found in a lot of instances that there are so many people I've not been in touch for almost a decade and a half, and obviously its nice to catch up on not just where you are right now, but how the journey was for you all the way along.
Somehow, us guys are not much talkers anyway, so we don't recollect the finer details. A normal conversation would probably include among other things, the schools we went to, and the job(s) we were at, and how we led our lives in general (!). Beyond that the talk kind of withers away, and there isn't much to say to each other anyway.
Kind of ironic, the best buddy, with whom you shared your school lunches with, shared your first crush with, or the awesome fun you've had with during those awful hindi classes, that you need to reconnect all over again - you are worse than strangers - you are two people who have had a history of good friendship a long while ago, and now there is nothing. And neither is trying to make an extension to reacquaint..
I guess a lot of friendship is temporal, that unlike blood ties, we need some level of emotional interconnect for a person to be relevant. Its been tough to let go of people you used to be close with, but I guess its a lot less disconcerting when you try to look back upon the good times you and that person have had, and decide its time to move on. Just like what will happen to the present lot of friends in a good part of a decade.. Touche
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