Day 26: Drifting Apart From Friends

Recently had to cancel on a friend for the second weekend in a row. Felt bad but we live a city or two apart and lives are hectic.

Sad thing is we used to be really close.

An inevitable fact of life is that you drift apart from friends.

I drifted from my childhood best friends, drifted from my highschool ones, I don't keep contact with 90% of my friends from first year. Life scatters you all through the wind.

And that's tough.

As you get older and older it gets harder to find new people with common interests and everyone seems to be at a different point in life. Some of us are broke students, some of us are working folk, some of us are spouses and some of us are parents.

I think what's important to remember isn't the drifting, it's the even knowing. We all start out as empty ledgers and then we get filled with stories, and you just gotta make the best stories you can with the time you have.

So don't take the people you have for granted. But also remember that if or when they leave, they're not taking anything absolutely essential, you're still a whole person, and there's even a little bit of good in goodbye.