h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I met a cousin of mine on the Friends Reunited website a few days ago. We lost contact over 20 years ago, and we were very close once. When we finally made contact we spent hours exchanging e-mails, swopped 'phone numbers, and rang each other the next day. Then we arranged to meet. Last Tuursday we met together for lunch, and although I recognised her as soon as I saw her, and she me, we were both shocked to find what 20 years had done to the both of us. I think we both imagined the other they way we had looked in 1983, when we parted. However, the old reasons why we were so close once were still there; same sense of humour, likes and dislikes and so on; and it wasn't long before we were passing over the lost years in fits of laughter. We've agreed not ever to lose touch again, and neither of us can now really remember why we lost touch in the first place, some petty squabble no doubt. When we parted again, it made me assess my priorities...it really is people that matter above everything else. Friends and family,are the secret, if you keep them close, all else that life throws at you somehow never seems quite so daunting, and life's problems, not quite so invincible.

aaawwww martin thats nice n so true !!it upsets me where i can see all my sisters drift apart im 1 of 7 girls (im the youngest)they alll seem to b arguing amongst each other n it upsets me has my mum n dad aint getting ne younger n they should try to get on n b a united family ...like at family parties ..it was my sisters 40th this year n i was the only sister at her party ..i can imagine if i got married they wouldnt turn up 4 my wedding !!it so much changed from when we were younger all looking out 4 1 aonther i suppose their there if i need em n i just recently went on holiday with 1 of em n her family !!i know its bad but i keep thinking if nething happens to my mum n dad the family is just gonna go their seperate ways .oh well thats enough of my probs soz do waffle on but im really pleased things worked out well 4 u n ur cousen never lose touch as family is important just wish my sisters would see this!!goodluck hunny 4 the futurexxx

The trouble is hun, that no-one listens to advice! If somone had told me and my cousin 20 years ago that were both being stupid, neither of us would have paid any notice....it's only now, 20 years later that we both know it was true. It's probably the same with your family. If you were to try and get all your sister together and say to them, "look girls, let's stay togehter, I don't like the way we're drifting apart." Some of them would agree with oyu, some of them would blame the others , and in the end they will all do their own thing anyway. I guess people just have to be let make their mistakes in their own time.

mmmmmmmm i suppose ur rite it prob wouldnt make ne difference im sorry to say their a bitchy lot n most r stubbion n jeleous of what each others got ..it doesnt bother me now about what ive got as i have my 2 girls ill make sure they dont make the same mistake as my sisters did but i suppose familys do drift at some point n make there own lifes ...but ill always keep in contact with em no matter what i always admit when im wrong n make sure i say my opinion when i am right too !!xx

Good for you girl, and so you should, never be beaten down by anyone babe! Come on over to the bar at the Boar's Head with me, and meet looselips, who's on the site for the first time. (being as though this is our first time out together, make sure you put THAT on, under your raincoat!