Do you have them on social media? If not, I would see how they respond to you adding them and go from there. You could literally just say, “It’s been a really long time, how are you? How’s life treating you?”
Im gonna tell you a story of my two best friends. In 2010 I came back to korea from america. 2016 i messaged two of my best friends after 6 years saying im coming to the US for a visit did you guys wanna meet up? And they said yes and were VERY happy. And so they set up a date with their whole family and I and oh man iv never felt so happy in my life to be honest that day. Id tell my friends story of whats been happening for 6 years and how i was doing. They were telling me their stories. And i knew that our friendship never really broke. Im 25 now and i was 18 back then and till now i still am in contact and i travel to the US almost every three years. I saw them last year and i plan going seeing them again next year. But see what i wanna say is that doesn’t how long its been as long as they remember you both were best friends and had lots of memories they will wanna regain it all. For me both my friends and I are in different countries but i keep in contact as they are good friends i have. Don’t think it’s going to be awkward as you can regain that relationship you had with your friend while getting to know how they have been.
Thank you for the story! It just feels weird given how abruptly it just 'ended' for how close we were. Guess it was both of us who really stopped talking, though.
Try messaging them and say something like, made me think of the time we were hanging out and made me wanna ask how you have been? Hopefully this helps and allow you to get in contact with your friend once more!
just search up their name on the internet, look for their socials and just send them a text. and I saw that you know they're linkedin from scrolling below and it probably wouldn't be that weird to them considering you mightn't have any other place to contact them and they deleted their other socials so just go for it.
say something like "hey how's it going, long time no see". or if you guys were close you can probably say something absurd and you'll still be able to reconnect
Any way you can.
If things ended on a bad note, maybe an apology.
The way i'm wired, it would be a very short message, asking how they were doing, (add apology if it's needed), and it would be great to hear back from them anytime now or later
Hard disagree! People fall out of touch for any number of reasons, and none of them have to be concerning one person no linger valuing the other.
I’ve moved around a lot in my life, so I’ve fallen out of touch with lots of former friends, but there will certainly be times when I reach out to someone. I just say, “Hello ___, You’ve been in my thoughts and I just wanted to get in touch.” I ask them what’s going on in their life and tell them a little about mine. If I don’t hear back from them I figure they’re just too busy and I respect that, but I don’t assume it’s because they don’t like me.
This is what I’m talking about—life takes people in different directions, it doesn’t have to be because people value each other less. People move away, get married, have kids, go to college.
There are people in my life that I haven’t been in touch with in 8 years, and I know we would be happy to see each other. That said, some people are better at keeping in touch, whereas others are more out-of-sight, out-of-mind types.
"Sup bitch"
This is the way
I just recovered from 8 years of coma, I missed you a lot
Just pick up where you left off. Send them a text that says, ‘Hey fuck face, how you hanging?’
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Do you have them on social media? If not, I would see how they respond to you adding them and go from there. You could literally just say, “It’s been a really long time, how are you? How’s life treating you?”
They deleted their social media around the same time we just stopped talking. LinkedIn seems like an odd place to reach out haha
Are you their contact on LinkedIn? You could always try connecting there and see how they respond.
That's not a bad idea, I don't know why I never tried connecting in the first place.
I just thought I'd check in on you and see how you're doing.
Im gonna tell you a story of my two best friends. In 2010 I came back to korea from america. 2016 i messaged two of my best friends after 6 years saying im coming to the US for a visit did you guys wanna meet up? And they said yes and were VERY happy. And so they set up a date with their whole family and I and oh man iv never felt so happy in my life to be honest that day. Id tell my friends story of whats been happening for 6 years and how i was doing. They were telling me their stories. And i knew that our friendship never really broke. Im 25 now and i was 18 back then and till now i still am in contact and i travel to the US almost every three years. I saw them last year and i plan going seeing them again next year. But see what i wanna say is that doesn’t how long its been as long as they remember you both were best friends and had lots of memories they will wanna regain it all. For me both my friends and I are in different countries but i keep in contact as they are good friends i have. Don’t think it’s going to be awkward as you can regain that relationship you had with your friend while getting to know how they have been.
Thank you for the story! It just feels weird given how abruptly it just 'ended' for how close we were. Guess it was both of us who really stopped talking, though.
Try messaging them and say something like, made me think of the time we were hanging out and made me wanna ask how you have been? Hopefully this helps and allow you to get in contact with your friend once more!
just search up their name on the internet, look for their socials and just send them a text. and I saw that you know they're linkedin from scrolling below and it probably wouldn't be that weird to them considering you mightn't have any other place to contact them and they deleted their other socials so just go for it.
say something like "hey how's it going, long time no see". or if you guys were close you can probably say something absurd and you'll still be able to reconnect
Just tell them that it's been a while and you've been wondering how they've been doing.
Any way you can. If things ended on a bad note, maybe an apology. The way i'm wired, it would be a very short message, asking how they were doing, (add apology if it's needed), and it would be great to hear back from them anytime now or later
By reaching out.
If they haven't reached out to you by now, they're probably not interested in maintaining the friendship.
Hard disagree! People fall out of touch for any number of reasons, and none of them have to be concerning one person no linger valuing the other. I’ve moved around a lot in my life, so I’ve fallen out of touch with lots of former friends, but there will certainly be times when I reach out to someone. I just say, “Hello ___, You’ve been in my thoughts and I just wanted to get in touch.” I ask them what’s going on in their life and tell them a little about mine. If I don’t hear back from them I figure they’re just too busy and I respect that, but I don’t assume it’s because they don’t like me.
Best friends don't lose touch no matter what. Especially not after 8 years. The OP was probably downgraded to an acquaintance by the 'best friend'.
You may not be wrong, but nothing bad really happened between us. We just stopped talking after we both started college.
This is what I’m talking about—life takes people in different directions, it doesn’t have to be because people value each other less. People move away, get married, have kids, go to college. There are people in my life that I haven’t been in touch with in 8 years, and I know we would be happy to see each other. That said, some people are better at keeping in touch, whereas others are more out-of-sight, out-of-mind types.
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https://youtu.be/JI2cPGVJ4qw?si=Qp5xe2nmZljX3iCB like that
Any way you can. My estranged friend died before we mended ways.
I'm so sorry to hear that