the art of keeping in touch:
> please please ALWAYS feel free to reach out to your friends that you've lost touch with. it will be the most welcome surprise
> if you're insecure why you lost touch; it happens and it's a normal part of life. that doesn't make your memories together any less special
> old friends are next level comfort. it’s history, past, and context that doesn’t need to be explained since they lived it right beside you
> there are life seasons - people move, change jobs, start school, start dating, breakup, get sick, grieve - all of these can impact how easy it might be to stay in touch and it's generally never personal
> make it a habit: whenever someone comes to mind, text them immediately. don't overthink it! this helps to maintain a lot of relationships at once
"hey, was just thinking about you! how you been?"
"just remembered the time we <funny memory together> it made me smile"
"saw <thing that reminds me of you> and thought of you"
> getting this type of message will likely make their day and bring back good memories for the both of you
> from there you can: have a back-and-forth texting convo, send voice memos, hop on a call, or figure out when you'll be in the same city again and make plans (woohoo!!)
> just as you're changing over time, your old friends are changing too. they're growing up right alongside you. even if you don't connect in the exact same way you did before, the shared context and memories are wonderful and irreplaceable
don't wait for the 'perfect moment' to reconnect - that perfect moment is now 🤍
I just got my MRI scan and did the same thing ... and the (german) clinic was blown away by my viewer.
I can browse every scan, hover to autoplay slices, search anything, scribble notes, stamp findings, and screenshot moments instantly.
people love to wax nostalgic about this time, but pre-internet your identity was totally constrained by where you were born and who was around you
i would've suffocated and died in that world, one way or another, i was already suffocating even when i could escape to the internet
I like using Flickr more then catalogs and magazines because it shows what people were actually wearing, and not just what a company is trying to sell off
"the success you've been looking for is hidden in the work you've been avoiding". that quote is crazy because it applies to all forms of gains. financial, fitness, relationships. the life you want for yourself is literally waiting on you, you just have to put in the work first.
this is what they meant when they said "the vulnerable will fall by the wayside". the news covering this makes it seem like an inevitable tragedy, and some may argue she was going to die at some point, but after COVID her condition worsened exponentially.
NEW: I wrote a small guide explaining how to archive things you see online and why you should. Archiving is essential for journalists, researchers and activists, and the more of us who get in the habit of archiving what we find, the better.
https://t.co/RoerUuDibo
my dad is trying to do his version of rickrolling me which is getting me to hear no rain by blind melon and then telling me that the lead singer OD'ed in a van in new orleans