Actually, to be honest, I don't even want to see this friend. It's someone I knew 15 years ago. We took very different paths in life. It sounds horrible to say this, but I only talk to him at this point because I feel sorry for him. He has made some really bad life choices and has had bad luck on top of it.

I am really not interested in a friendship with him because we have very little in common at this point, but I don't really want to flat out tell him that. I had kept to a very low contact relationship with him, but some stuff really spun out of control for him this year and I tried to help him out. He keeps saying we should get together and I don't know what to say to that except 'yeah, we should.' I try to keep it vague and say I am busy, but sooner or later I have to get pinned down to a date. Ugh.