Reconnecting
Reconnecting
So yesterday my cousin sent me a blog I wrote about her a long time ago and it got me thinking about how wonderful it was to reconnect with her after we had drifted apart years ago.
Sometimes things happen, time changes, people move away, lives change and somehow you lose touch with people you love.
Over the years you think of them often, wondering where they are and how they are doing, wishing you could reconnect with them.
We are blessed to live in this age of technology where we can, at a touch of a button, look up people we have been thinking of.
I know that I have always been blessed with a lot of friends and all during my marriage I was cut off from almost all of them for years. When I got separated I got on Facebook right away and started to look up old friends and was so thrilled to find so many of the wonderful friends I had growing up.
I even found my first best friend Mary, who moved away when we were twelve. For all those years I searched for her, who knew she moved to the next town over? And here 35 years later, I found her cousin on Facebook and we reconnected, it was incredible, and now we talk every week.
But one of the best reconnections was with my cousin Carol. She was five years younger than me, and she was my shadow. I grew up an only child and when she came along, she became the little sister I never had.
I taught her to ride a bike, to swim, to stand up and be tough. (She really learned that one)
We would sing into our hair brushes while listening to Captain and Tenille and Barry Mantalow (I know you are all laughing because you remember doing the same thing and are just too embarrassed to say it!)
My friends would say "Why is she here? Why do you bring her everywhere you go?"
And I would say "Because she's my sister, where I go, she goes"
She was part of my crew like it or not, I didn't have to bring her, I wanted to bring her with me.
We would sit up late into the night, telling each other our dreams, our fears, our goals.
We told each other our secrets, we cried in each other's arms. We stuck up for each, got beatings for each other, but we never would rat the other out. I even got arrested for picking her up after she ran away to another state. I would do anything for this girl, she was my life, my blood, my little sister.
She actually had a sister that was my age, but she never appreciated her like I did. She was jealous and mean spirited and was constantly trying to get her in trouble. Growing up we were like peanut butter and jelly, peas and rice, spaghetti and meatballs, we went together, we were a pair.
She had a rough life and when she was 17, she met this boy, that she thought would be her ticket out. She married him, had a baby and moved to his country, leaving her family, her friends and me behind. The miles and some misunderstandings made the years fly by, but I kept looking for her. I Google her, I searched Facebook, I asked everyone I knew she knew.
So you're thinking why didn't you just call her sister, duh! I did but as I said she was a bitter, petty person then and had not changed, and she wouldn't give me any information.
When my marriage was falling apart and my mother passed away, I was in a state of depression,and out of the blue my phone rang and yup, it was her. You couldn't imagine my joy to have found her again and even after all those years, it only felt like minutes. It was as if we talked yesterday and we have talked every week since.
It feels like part of my heart has been returned to me, I am whole again, I have my best friend, and my little sister back, I cannot tell you how grateful I am.
So today my friends, my advice to you is don't ever give up hope, keep looking. If you really want to reconnect with that person keep searching. If that person holds a part of your heart, if you need to tell them your sorry, or I forgive you, life is too short, don't wait. If this pandemic has taught us anything it's that you'll never know what will happen, so don't wait, do it now, I can tell you it is so worth it!
Reconnect today!
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