kareina

When I was a kid we moved just about every three years, for the first nine years of my life. Each time we moved it meant saying good bye to friends and never seeing them again. Since I've turned 18 I've moved, roughly every three years. At first I kept in touch with some friends via long-distance phone calls, and then, years later, with others via e-mail, but despite the best of intentions, I have lost touch with many people over the years.

However, since I discovered MySpace and LiveJournal not too long back, I have stumbled upon any number of old friends, some of whom I'd not thought of in years. It is funny how, after so many years with no contact whatsoever with them, how much Joy it has brought me to rediscover them now. To be reminded of good times which happened long ago and far away, and to discover that while we have all, no doubt, changed in many ways, the things which caused me to love my friends then are still there, an ever-present part of their personalities today.

I have been thinking that after I finish this degree that I should like to take a bit of time off for traveling before moving wherever it is that I go next. The more time I spend on both MySpace and LiveJournal, finding old friends in the list of my friend's friends, the more people I hope to make time to go visit!

(And if any of you have been looking for an excuse to come visit Australia--this is the year to do it, I can't promise to be here next year, but I've got a spare-room available now!)

I have been posting occasional blog entries on MySpace. Thus far my LiveJournal account has only been used to read what my friends here have been up to (and I suspect that there are far more people I care about with LJ accounts than I know about--I find new ones fairly often commenting on my friend's pages--if you happen to know of other people I care about who aren't on my friend's list, do please let me know their user name here!).

It occurred to me today that it wouldn't take much extra time to post duplicate entries both here and on MySpace (I tend to do the composition in a word-processor anyway--pasting twice instead of once would be easy enough.)

Do any of my friends think I should bother? Would you want to be able to hear what I've been up to here? (I know at least one of you reads what I put on MySpace, but perhaps you'd find it more convenient for you if I used this format?)