What's the right way of expressing a desire to meet with someone in the future on the multiple basis?
What's the right way of expressing a desire to meet with someone in the future on the multiple basis (unspecified number of times, but definitely more than once)?
- We should surely meet again and keep in contact.
→ This may mean that I want to meet only one more time and then just keep in contact.- We should surely be meeting again and keep in contact
→ This will probably mean the same thing as 1.- We should surely meet again — and not once — and keep in contact.
→ This may mean that I want to meet perhaps only two or three times and then just keep in contact.- We should surely meet again in the future on the regular basis and keep in contact.
→ This may mean that I almost require a certain level of frequency of future meetings, while I am a far cry from putting such a burden on the person.
So, what should I say here?
Solution 1:
I think something like "we should keep in contact and perhaps meet up some more", as it's not necessarily upping the frequency as "on a regular basis" but it's keeping it short and by saying "some more" you're not putting a rough number on the frequency of future meetings; not putting "a burden" on the person but ensuring that you'd like to meet more than once. Also, by saying "perhaps" you're making the person more open to choice.
Solution 2:
There are several ways to say it; I might alter my wording depending on my relationship with the other person. (I might not use the same language between say, a colleague at work, and a girl I was interested in dating.)
In the general case, I might opt for:
We should get together on a regular basis.
"Get together" implies face-to-face, and "on a regular basis" conveys more than a one-time subsequent meeting.
Also, I'd avoid using the word "surely" in the request; it sounds out of place for some reason. If you wanted to include an extra qualifier to connote that sentiment, you might try this instead:
We should definitely get together on a regular basis.
which sounds more enthusiastic, but might sound overly desperate, too, if you don't know the other person very well.
If this was more of a request, and you wanted to allow the other person opt out of it without the awkwardness of feeling impolite, you could phrase it in the form of a question:
Maybe we could start meeting regularly?
Solution 3:
"Let's keep in touch" will do. It nearly conveys all the things you listed, in an implicit way. It also sounds better.
Solution 4:
Let us always meet up in future
gives a sense of an endless number of meetings.