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You think about them. Your college roommate. Your aunt in another state. The friend who moved away three years ago.
You mean to reach out. But then you don't—because what would you even say?
Social media was supposed to keep us connected. Instead, it turned relationships into performance—broadcasting to strangers while the people who actually love you get the same feed as everyone else.
Group texts are chaos. Substack feels like building an audience. And nobody has time to write individual emails to twenty people.
Once a month, sit down and write about your life. What's new. What the kids are up to. A photo from that trip. The small, real things.
Then send it to your list—grandparents, old friends, the cousin you always mean to call. It lands in their inbox, personal and direct.
Your mom calls after she reads it.
Your college friend replies with news of their own.
Your uncle mentions it at Thanksgiving—he loved the photo of the garden.
The people who matter feel close again. That's the whole point.
Every update is saved. Look back at what you were doing last February. See how the kids have grown. It's a journal you didn't know you were keeping.
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The people you love are wondering what you've been up to.
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