(soft music)
(phone ringing)
- [Man] Omni.
- Hi, Dad.
- [Man] What's goin' on?
(laughing)
- [Woman] Hello?
- Hey Jill, it's Sierra.
- [Jill] Hey Sierra.
- Okay, so I was just walking around Weslyn,
and I stopped by a sign that said to call
someone you've lost touch with
and tell them what they mean to you.
- I'm Russell Frazier, I just wanted
to thank you for being such a great mentor.
It really helped me get on the right path
to my school and everything.
Yah, give me a call sometime.
Bye.
- Aubrey?
- [Aubrey] Yeah?
- Hey, it's me Jen, Jennifer from last year.
- [Aubrey] Oh cool!
- Hey, how are you?
- [Aubrey] Did you get a new phone number?
- No.
- Well I was just calling to say hi,
and you know,
I love you.
And I miss you.
- Hey, Paula, this is Scott.
How are you?
I just want to tell you that I love you,
and I want to be able to talk to you more often
than every three or four years.
Okay?
Love you.
- I want to tell you like thanks for putting me
through all that to help me become a better artist.
- [Woman] Ah, it was really neat being able
to see your growth.
Thank you for your dedication and commitment.
(giggling)
- It was no problem and thanks for being
like our mom, you know.
- You're my dad and I want to be around you
and I want to have experiences with you.
- [Man] I want that as well honey.
- Okay, great.
Awesome.
- Ever since grade eight we just always stayed great friends
even though our paths have diverged so much.
So thank you for always being there for me,
and you're one of the people that I love the most
from back home and you make home
such a special place for me.
- [Woman] Oh, I love you so much.
- You and I, I guess we were never really
super close growing up.
Even though I do see you a good amount,
I do feel like you know we should talk more.
- [Man] Okay, yeah, we should.
- Okay, great.
Well, I guess I'll see you in a couple
of weeks for the holidays.
- So definitely we need to have kind of like
an all-hands family meeting to just get
everything out, to get everything out!
And then we can move forward as a family.
That's the only way.
- [Man] I'm all in.
(laughing)
- It was awesome to hear you.
And I'll try to keep in touch some more.
Alright?
- [Woman] Love you!
- Okay.
- Love you lots.
- [Woman] Love you lots too.
- Bye.
(upbeat music)
- Oh man, my heart was racing when I was dialing his number.
But it was a good, it was a good thing,
it was like a finally I'm doing this thing.
I'm allowing myself to do this type of thing, heart race.
And it was great.
- I guess I kind of, I saw the sign
and as I was dialing the number,
my heart started thumping a little bit
which is kind of crazy because I'm just
talking to my brother.
- I was just like, okay, what am I going to tell her
because she hasn't heard from me in so long?
It's just like random.
- The last time I spoke to my dad was
about three or four months ago.
And it was in a really intense environment.
It was at my grandmother's funeral.
And then, we kind of just stopped talking after that.
- Even though we don't talk that much,
it's kind of you know, what else is new?
But I'm still glad he knows how I feel
because sometimes I feel like he really doesn't.
And especially going into the holidays,
I'm going to see him for a few weeks from now
for this holiday season.
So I'm glad we kind of have it all on the table
and he's a little bit more familiar, you know,
with how I feel about him.
- I think it's a big part of our happiness.
You know a lot our our, like, I guess,
being content comes from the relationships you have.
You know?
- You and your friend may both be thinking
the exact same thing, too nervous to call each other,
but a quick phone call can actually address so many
different things, make the whole relationship a lot better.
Bring it back to where it was.
- It definitely takes guts to reconnect with someone
that you haven't talked to in a long time
just because you don't know what
their reaction's going to be.
I thought of a million things that could've
might've happened when I called him.
He could've hung up in my face,
or been like, "What are you doin'
"or what are you talking about?"
Or whatever, it might not have been received well.
And I'm very happy that none of those things happened,
and that I was received, well at least to my knowledge.
When I call him later, we'll find out.
It definitely takes lots of guts
and courage to do something like this.