Have you ever rekindled a friendship after losing touch? How'd it go?

I've tried several times but it always ends up in just losing touch again as we used to have a common place to frequent, so most of those friendships were due to location. I used to be best friends with a guy for around 7 years in elementary and middle school, found him a decade later, messaged him, everything goes well and we talk on the phone, game a bit but after a few weeks everything just goes silent.

We tried to rekindle two more times but I guess not going to the same places daily or working together makes friendships almost impossible.