Correspondence

In a final effort to rekindle my friendships, I've re-instituted keeping in touch amongst the ladies who have shaped the last 5 years of my life. We all said that we would stay friends after college; there was even talk of annual vacations, just us girls. After a mere 2 years though, I have noticed that we haven't done a very good at keeping our word to one another. I'm sure it happens all the time- "Keep in touch" seems to have become such a cursory statement. I remember jotting the same 3 words on the back of my senior pictures before handing them out to my high school friends, 6 years ago. I'm only in contact with 2 of the people on whom I bestowed my friendship back then. What has gotten into us as a generation? Why are we so bad at keeping contact with those who are close to us? My grandmother still writes to friends she had in grade school and I can barely keep track of my own sisters! Have we become so dependent on technology that if we aren't emailing, we aren't talking? Perhaps that is it. Only when I appointed monthly email updates did I hear anything from my pals. Even I have avoided making phone calls to these friends that I miss so much, worried that I won't have anything interesting to say. But no longer, I'm committing myself to this.