Old Friends, New Life

I've been re-connecting with a lot of old friends recently. For me, apparently this is what Facebook is for. There's one specific person that I lost contact with that I've reconnected with. My friend Ed. Back in the Dartmouth days, when I lived in Panarchy, we would have our quarterly rave parties (this was the late 90's and all). He was friends with a friend of mine, and came up to play live sets. He was one of those people that when you meet, you know instantly that you're going to be a real friend to. Eventually, I graduated Dartmouth, and moved back to the Midwest. Lost contact. He ended up moving to Montreal, and I moved to Chicago.
I signed up for Facebook back in March, because I wanted to reconnect with old friends. The ones that I thought of quickly, and the ones that I always thought about, but didn't know enough information to find them (like a last name....I'm horrible with names, and am lucky to remember a first name....last names are far worse). Lo and behold, Ed requests me as a friend. At first, I had the reaction of "who the hell is Ed T?" (last names will be redacted). Got in the shower, doing my normal morning routine. While I was washing my hair, the light bulb clicked on in my head and I screamed out, "Holy shit, it's Ed?" "How did he read my mind? I've been thinking about him lately, wondering what he was up to."
It's funny that I can think of someone, missing the conversations, the fun times, the deep thoughts, and lately, that person has been finding me on Facebook. I look forward to reconnecting with people from my past, as I have not kept up with them as I should have. But it makes it all the more rich to connect with them now.