How do you know which people are going to be in your life temporarily, and which ones you'll be in touch with forever? (Forever meaning more than just the occasional "hey, how's it been?" on Facebook.)
See, I'm quite fond of a lot of people in my life right now. I share friendships with them that take so much time to develop. I don't want to lose them. And yet I can think of plenty of people who I truly cherished at one point, and are now practically strangers. That's just life I guess. Everything that's worthwhile takes effort.
I was recently thinking about a friend who I now have very little in common with and who I can no longer even call a friend. At the time, I was academically-oriented and absorbed in my own life, and he was driven by his own hobbies and passions, and our different ways of going about life left us disconnected from each other. That disconnection made it easy for us to stop being friends. I know I couldn't have predicted the fate of our friendship, but I wish I had told him how much I admired him for having genuine talents. I wish I had encouraged him in his passions instead of being so absorbed in my own. Maybe it could have salvaged our friendship.
I wish I could express my thoughts to the people who have impacted my life and yet are absent from it now. I would have a million things to say. I guess for now I'll have to settle for the occasional "hey, how's it been?"s.
Striving to be more vocal (when it matters),
Gabz
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