Friends

Friends are important to remember. Sharing traditions and remembering each other's birthdays are ways to enrich friendships by creating mutual memories.
Yet often one will remain in contact with few, if any, high school classmates despite good intentions. There are many traditional ways we can remember our friends.

Meeting or calling to keep each other "up-to-date" on what is going on of significance in each other's lives.		When too many separate memories are made without being shared, friends may grow further apart or sense a distancing or lessening of their friendship.
	Online chats provide a "real time" way to keep in touch less expensively. Emilie uses AIM and ICQ.
Sending postcards, even Virtual Postcards	Writing letters.	Writing a note to say, "Thinking of you," or "Please write" to remind someone that you are thinking of him or her
	Displaying Photographs. Taking photographs of special events, like proms or vacation outings.
	Exchanging jewelry: wearing rings or friendship bracelets.
Sharing a "song" may become a close bond, reminding you of your special friend.	Once the memory is formed, every time you hear that song for the rest of your life, you will probably think of that friend.	You will also probably remember the occasion when it first became "Our Song" for you.
At the end of the school year in the U.S., many friends sign each other's yearbooks with a short personal note.	Signing Yearbooks and Autograph books	Later in life, people look back at both the yearbook pictures and the messages to cherish memories of their former classmates.