Just Somebody I Used To Know

This May marks ten years since I graduated from High School. Honestly where did the time go? Every so often as of late I’ve been thinking about if I’ll be attending the reunion or if I want to skip it. One of the bigger factors that makes me think either yay or nay comes down to evaluating what all I’ve been up to for the past ten years, as I’ve been known to do from time to time. It’s weird to think on different levels of personal goals or where I may have thought I should be at this point. If I’m not thinking of that in particular I think about where other people are that I knew during that time. Thanks to Facebook, which is still funny to me that I can’t remember how I kept in contact other than calling friends on the phone back then, I’ve been able to keep in contact with a lot of my friends at very least on occasion. What I’ve come to notice tho is that somehow, someway some folks are not on Facebook so it is a total mystery to see how they are or where they are. This makes me think of something else about life, how people can come and go from it and how easy that seems to be.

Think about it. Today there might be important key people in your life and tomorrow they might be gone. Perhaps you had a best friend when you were ten and then they moved away and you couldn’t find a way to keep in touch. They exit your life and continue on, but to you they’re gone. Sometimes its people moving away, sometimes its death unfortunately, sometimes it’s even disagreement that causes people to distance themselves from one another. It’s an interesting thought on how fragile relationships are in life, be they romantic ones, friendships, or even family relationships sometimes don’t last which is saddest of all if you ask me. One of my favorite things to do on occasion when I get to thinking about things like this is talk to other people about where they were at different times in their lives and see where I was. It never fails to be interesting when I see that somebody who might be important to my life at the moment was only minutes away or sometimes in the same place at the same time years before or occasionally I had even met or at least made eye contact with but never really made that connection. It’s like fate I suppose. I don’t really believe in fate, but I do believe that a lot of things happen for a reason and those paths and lives often make various intersections in life.

I guess the conclusion that I’ve made as of late is that you should always treasure those in your life at the moment, whether they be your best friend or some person you just sort of like and/or tolerate, because you never know if they’ll still be in your life tomorrow or they’ll be the most important part of your life the day after that. Easier said than done, but life is funny that way. It’s fascinating.