Texting, FaceBook messages and phone tag are the remnants of many of my close friendships. It’s not that we don’t want to get together; it’s just that we can’t even get a hold of each other to have a five minute phone call. For instance, I have a friend who works night shifts at the hospital from 7 pm to 7 am. When I try to call her during my lunch break at noon, she’s still sleeping. If she calls me after her shift, I’m busy chasing after my toddler.

Unfortunately grown-up stuff like jobs, spouses and kids all take precedent over our friendships with people who once knew our daily schedule intimately. In high school we took for granted all the time we spent with friends – at school, after school, on the weekends. Heck, we even had time to write each other notes everyday on top of it all. It all seemed so easy. Now planning a simple coffee date involves three voicemails and several text messages to organize a one hour rendezvous two weeks from now.