“I figured out long ago that there are only a few people in our lives that we will never fail to stay in touch with; it would just never cross our mind to leave them out of the loop. Everyone else comes and goes from our presence, in and out of our thoughts, sometimes drawn to the forefront arbitrarily, but usually simply hanging around in the Cloud somewhere. And by everyone else, I really do mean everyone else, no matter how important or unimportant they are; if they aren’t one of those curious dozen or fewer who will always be in your back pocket, you will go long stretches without hearing from them and, more importantly, you will not worry about it.”

(I wrote this in an email to a friend, and… it kind of surprised me how cynical I sound.)