Keep in touch

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust

One of the most important things in life is spending time with family and friends.  Some of us don't take the time to reach out and speak to those who we don't see very often.  I for one am guilty of this myself.  I feel that we as people need to keep in touch with family, friends, and those that mean a lot to us.  It's funny how a few of us will meet a girl or guy and call them all the time and you barely know them, when there are relatives that we don't even keep in touch with barely at all.  Why do we feel that 20 minutes of our time to speak with someone we call family could be a waste of time?  We should always remember that even though it may not be important to you, but it may mean the world to someone else that you reach out and communicate with them.  Take the time to pick up the phone, or maybe even write a letter to your grandmother who you haven't spoke with, or maybe even that auntie that you wish you could have had a better relationship with.  We all have someone who we wish we had a better relationship with or someone we wish we spoke to more often.  The reason we should all take that time to keep in touch with the people we don't always have time to speak of is because we never want to feel like we didn't have time with those individuals when they are gone.  Too often we lose people in our lives and look back on it and say to ourselves " I should have spent more time" or "I should have talked to them more often."  Lets try to do the best we can to show our loved ones that we care and want to be apart of their lives more. 

So when you think to yourself I haven't talked to this person or that person in a while pick up the phone and give them a call, there is probably a good chance they were thinking the same about you.  I found when taking time out of your day to contact a loved one that you don't always get the time to talk to makes you feel good, you feel as if you have accomplished something.  Bottom line is keep family and friends as one of your priorities in life, we can never have enough people that love us and we should never lose contact with those people because family is all you have in the end.