it's a pretty sweet thing, compared to the piece of crap i used before... having a color screen is pretty nifty. :) plus it's got a digi cam, built-in speaker phone, and all these neat features. i'm one happy customer.

the only problem was having to update my contacts (i could have paid extra to have the data transferred from old phone to new, but i'm a cheap @$$). so as i'm reviewing and manually typing in all these names and numbers into the new phone, i realized i've lost touch with lots of people. old friends, ex-roommates, college buddies.... some i didn't ever START keeping in touch with... there were some numbers saved in there that i didn't know i had or had long forgotten about. and who knew if the number was still current? for all i know, they could have changed their numbers and never bothered to send me an updated # (not that i'd blame them).

it was very nostalgic -- having to remember the times in my life when i was communicating with these people, and why i must have felt compelled and thought it importaint to maintain contact with them. now, with so much time having gone by without a spoken word, i briefly wondered how they were, whether or not they were happy, and whether they ever thought about the good times. despite all this wondering, though, i have admit that even if we were to reconnect, things would be weird, awkward. it is then that i know our moment has passed and that there would be nothing left to revisit. so i hit the DELETE button. a lot. and just like that, the remnants of an old memory were erased.

i forget how easy it is for people to grow out and apart.

isn't it funny how even with improving technology -- email, instant messaging, cell phones -- to help us communicate and keep in touch with others, and how a cell phone basically allows us to be "reachable" at all times, how things still fall through the cracks?