While on Facebook tonight I looked at the side bar where they suggest people you may know, and I saw someone that brought back a memory. That memory bought to mind how I never speak to some people from my past again. How some of those people I used to be so close with, close enough to call them my brother or sister even. Yet now I know nothing of their current life or how they are doing or anything.
I find it so interesting how you feel so close to someone and then a few years down the road nothing. Now I'm not talking about someone you have known for about a year and then you don't talk to any more. I'm talking about people you have grown up with, you have known since grade school, then middle school, high school and still talked with after high school even.
I understand people grow and change and can grow apart. People figure out what they want in life and out of life and you may not always fit into that "new" life style. And that's okay with me. But there are some of those friendships that you lose that hurt to lose. I have some that I wonder well what if I had done something different maybe. Or been a better friend. But then I start to think, most of the people that are no longer in my life have chosen to be distant from me. Weather it's their spouse who for some reason has a problem with me, or we just grew apart I know that their time, their season in my life is over. They spent their time with me, helped me grow as a person, and gave me some wonderful memories to take with me for the rest of my life. But it's time to move on, to grow from what I have learned from them and use it.
So who is no longer in your life that you have memories of, that has made an impact on who you are today?
