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When the decades just roll by and you don't pay too much attention to what happened to all the encounters you had along the way, it happens that you remember one thing or another and then wonder what became of these people.
I still run into Hartmut from kindergarten in the city every now and then, Beate from elementary school as well and other classmates every now and then; you exchange pleasantries and go your own way.
Many other people once played an important role in one's life for a short time, friends, comrades and very good acquaintances, who all of a sudden were simply gone again - out of sight, out of mind.
You meet a few of them again and again almost like a meteor and perhaps even manage to exchange ideas about the past years or even decades. It happens more and more often that you hear from them when they died before you.
Some encounters are consciously maintained across continents and years, although these also become fewer.
Human mobility has its advantages but also disadvantages. And so the Internet was initially a kind of savior for many, but now there has probably been some disillusionment here too.
Because each person can only maintain a certain number of encounters and recognizing this, it depends particularly on which ones you get and which ones you don't - although this is usually a mutual matter.
