Locate An Old Friend Day

On the third Saturday of September, Find an Old Friend Day is celebrated to celebrate reconnecting with people you formed friendships with many years ago In the Soviet Union, the “Gorspravka” or “Information Bureau” booths helped in finding the right person at his place of residence In the Internet era, the World Wide Web and social networks are used for this purpose On their pages you can find former classmates, housemates, classmates and work colleagues with whom you were friends 20-40 years ago “An old friend is better than two new ones,” says popular wisdom Locate An Old Friend Day encourages people around the world to pay attention to the importance of close connections established with people around them in childhood or adolescence Old and reliable comrades whom a person acquired in his youth become his true friends and help for the rest of his life Each of us most often develops trusting relationships in early childhood or adolescence Experts attribute this to mental mobility, the need of young people for emotional attachments without assessing the real qualities of a partner Friends are especially important in adolescence, when, due to psychological changes and hormonal changes in the body, it seems to the teenager that the whole world has turned against him In adulthood, with the acquisition of experience, the emergence of some skepticism and distrust of the world around us, friends appear extremely rarely Established personalities are not particularly ready to make concessions to each other, turn a blind eye to the partner’s imperfections and endow him, as in his youth, with qualities that he in reality does not possess The older and more experienced a person becomes, the more difficult it is for him to find a like-minded and congenial person Friends really don't grow in gardens They grow up with us in the sandbox of the kindergarten, on the alley near the school, which together they cleared of garbage during the cleanup day An old friend remains in your memory as a person who stood next to you and did not retreat a single step under the pressure of hooligans from the neighboring yard This is not forgotten He managed to give you a cheat sheet during an exam at the institute literally in front of the professor What is there! A comrade was carrying your lifeless body, filled with liters of beer, after celebrating Tatyana’s Day And he honestly lied to his parents on the phone that everything was fine - you were drinking tea in the dorm Look at photos from your high school graduation or wedding! These are the images of your old friends, with whom so many pleasant memories are associated Yes, life has scattered us across cities and villages But this is not a reason to forget about those with whom the best years of your life are connected “Find an Old Friend” Day encourages you to return to the past, to feel like part of a common company or team with whom you went to the collective farm to grow potatoes in your first year