The TImes They Are A-Changin'

The past few weeks for me have been quite eye opening and I don’t know how I feel about that. Ever since I started this term of college I have been running into old friends and catching up with them when I could. Some of these people I have not spoken to for years and some I have kept in contact with.  I am very glad that I am able to talk with the people that I consider my friends. I consider my friends a very important part of my life and I would not be the person I am today if it were not for every one of them. The friends that I have not spoken to in years are the ones I would like to talk about in today’s post.

As I catch up with these select few I am constantly learning new things about themselves. For the most part, they are totally different people from what I remember them being, which really isn’t a surprise. We all change over time and given enough of it we can become something that others never dreamed we could be. These changes, may they be for better or for worse, show me that life moves much faster than I have ever imagined it moving. Seeing my close and old friends grow up and experience things that I never would have imagined them experiencing is something that I honestly still have a hard time believing. Their changes also make me realize the changes that I have gone through since I last spoke to them.  And I see that, just like them, I am not the same person that I was 3 or even 5 years ago.

                Part of me feels disconnected from my old friends, hearing about what has happened to them and knowing that I was not there to see or help them out along the way. I guess that cannot be helped. After all, I cannot be in more than one place and help everybody when they need it. I very much wish I could though. One thing you must know about me is that I am a huge people person. I thrive on helping my friends and those I love as well as their company. If I am completely alone I will go crazy. I don’t know what that is called, but I am sure that the world of psychology has a name for it.

I guess what I am trying to get across is that I feel like I am losing my friends to these changes of theirs as well as my own. I am also trying to say that I am not particularly a big fan of change, especially when it is as sudden as it has been recently. And I guess technically I am losing them, since the friends I am reconnecting with are, like I said, for the most part completely different people.

There really is nothing for it, but to get to know these new versions of the friends I have come to love dearly and adapt to any changes (mine and my friend's) that come my way; the good and the bad.