6 Simple Ways To Keep In Touch With A Long Distance Friend

Consider this scenario: you have met your best friend in high school. This friend is the one you’re trusting with every little secret, trouble or woe. You also share all your happiness, the joy of having a new relationship, and even the heartbreak into this person. When the time came for university, however, you both had to part ways to pursue your own careers.

When this situation happens, you will imagine that there will be a massive gap between the both of you and the friendship will be ruined, but you’re wrong. It will survive.

Communication is key. This article will help you make it work. Here are some of the simplest ways for you to keep in touch with your long distance friend:

1. Set a phone date day at least once a week.

Moving on with each other’s lives can get overwhelming. You can also get caught up in a lot of work to do, that sometimes, it may seem like an impossible task to spend hours on the phone with your family, plus your long distance friend.

To make things less complicated, set a time and day of the week where you are both free to talk on the phone and even through video calls! Technology makes long distance communication so much easier these days. This way, you’ll still feel like you are a part of each other’s lives, and are also updated as to what your friend is up to.

2. Drop a random message through text or email.

If you can spend minutes on Facebook during your break time, or hours on Netflix before you go to bed, surely you can spare a minute to send a random text to your friend.

Your text message does not have to be long and unique. Even a simple “Hello, good morning, how are you?” or “What’s up?” will keep your communication lines open to each other. Doing this will help your friendship stay strong and will avoid the possibility to feel distant.

On the other hand, email gives you the depth of conversations that a text message cannot; it allows you to create longer and more detailed words. Also, it feels quite more personal because you do not have to rush your replies. Today, building and replying to e-mail has become more convenient due to your smartphones. You can respond to an email in the same manner as you do with a regular text message.

3. Meet halfway.

Surely you have trips planned for the weekend or the school holiday. If you live quite far from each other, you can set a few days in a year to meet halfway from each other’s respective locations.

This halfway point can be the start of a tremendous adventure, as you also explore a new place together. Here you can spend hours catching up and spend precious time with each other.

4. Send a postcard or an old-school mail!

Sending a postcard is not a thing of the past; it is still a beautiful and thoughtful way to show them the beauty of your new place, and also to let them know that you are thinking of them. Your long-distance friend will appreciate this gesture. There’s also an exceptional feeling when you receive a postcard.

Like sending postcards, write a handwritten letter to your long distance friend from time to time. When you write a letter, you spend time and effort to do so; therefore it will make your long distance friend feel more special, and that you have thought about them. It has been found that receiving mail on your mailbox, other than all those subscriptions and bank mails, can instantly brighten up a gloomy day. It will make your friend feel like they are actually thought.

5. Use social media to your advantage.

Social media goes beyond just posting images of yourself, your life and what it is you have for lunch today.

The advent of social media makes it so much easier to communicate with each other. On Instagram or Facebook, for example, you can send or share photos or videos of your day to day lives which keeps you on the loop of each other’s lives! Even a simple comment on each other’s post will let your friend know that you are curious about how they are doing in their life, and what it is they are up to.

6. Share a common thing that you could pass back and forth to each other.

Before you and your friend part ways physically, try to have an item that you can share between each other. Think of the Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants movie, but instead of sharing jeans, try to think of something else like a top or a bag.

Another example is to share a journal or a diary. Write down something about your life on the diary-like you would in your journal, then mail it on a weekly or monthly schedule.

Conclusion

Keeping a long-distance friendship can be a lot of work, but it can also be an extraordinary form of friendship. Do not let it go even if both of you becomes busy with your own lives. All of the effort in making the friendship work will always be worth it. Plus, you will still get very excited when you get a chance to see each other again.