SecretTacoNinja said:
Sorry about a little bit of thread necromancy but I have a problem that's been chapping my ass for a while now...
I have a friend in London, she was my best friend when I lived there but I never get to see her since we never have any money to drive to London. I was supposed to be keeping in touch with her over the phone, but I hate phones (and I think I gave her my phone number wrong...), and when she asked me if I had MSN, I was still a computer noob so I didn't know what the hell she was talking about... So now I don't know how long it's been but I'm really scared of getting in touch with her since I'm now completely paranoid, anxious, scared of other human beings, scared that she doesn't care about me and I'm terrified of cocking up...
What should I do?... It sounds as simple as picking up the phone and calling her but... I don't know how she'll react...
As trite as it sounds: don't worry about it. Text her with a request to 'catch up'.
Don't be surprised if there isn't a response- if it's been a long time, or if she's a forgetful person the initial text may go entirely unanswered. If that happens go ahead and text/phone again a week later.
Texting takes a little less of an emotional investment, and can be answered at leisure.
Also be sure to friend her on a social networking site. Those sites are easy to sneer at, but are extremely useful if you lose your address book/computer/contact info.
