Hand written letters are a treasure to hold today.
They are fast approaching to becoming extinct and are rare.
Many letters come in though, but they're all impersonal and uninviting.
By the way, one way to tell that hand written letters are rare, is to look at letters that you've opened which were sent out by marketing companies.
They understand that you, as a consumer, are more likely to be responsive to the letter, if it's appears to be personal and hand crafted by someone, rather than a mere mass production.
If and when you do read a letter from someone you know, hopefully a good friend, you read it with love and attention, and probably keep it in a box rather than chucking it away like all the others.
However, like time, we have to move one and there is nothing moving more faster than communication.
Once it was letters, now it's email.
I've recently kept up 4 lines of communication with 4 different people.
One is a solicitor for legal reasons I wont bore you with, another is a friend who's away in Australia, the third is another friend away on holiday and the last are my parents who live on the other side of the town.
All of them I keep in contact with as well as conversations that can get quite complex.
If such forms of communication is become so popular, then finding past friends and keeping in touch with them should be even easier, particularly as they are likely to have email, like you.
Find their email address through a friends and then log them on your address book for future reference.
I've tried this out a few time in the past and have managed to resume contact with about 2 out of 5 people I've wanted to get in contact with.
My job over the next month is to get hold of the addresses of the other 3.
Is there anyone you'd like to talk to again?