Friends and a Thing Called Life.

Well, today I was pondering on friends again. I guess it's kind of my big thing these days. Anyway, I was reflecting on the fact that over time friends tend to drift apart. Even the best of friends can become mere acquaintances without the proper care and work. That's right, I said work. Being friends isn't all fun and games. If you think it is, your relationships with your friends probably aren't very deep. Now, don't get all defensive because I stated my opinion. This is my blog and I'm entitled to say whatever I want. At any rate, I was thinking and realizing that sometimes we build deep friendships and they start to dissipate. For whatever reason, the friendship becomes harder to maintain, and that can lead to the disintegration of a friendship. It's not that the two friends become enemies, but rather they just sort of drift apart as life carries them separate ways. I'm feeling in my own life that the threat of dissolving friendships creates a sort of fear or angst, at least with those that are close to me. I realized that if certain people in my life were to disappear, it would be as though my best friend had moved away in the first grade all over again. That feeling of losing the coolest person in the world, the one that you would hang out with all the time every day. Yeah, it's not a good feeling. So, I feel a need to pull on my friends that are closest, to keep them close and try not to let them just slip away. Most of my adolescent life I spent not having close friends. I would meander from group to group in high school, and when everyone was doing something else I would walk around by myself. I felt very isolated. However, I have since then developed some amazing friendships. Friendships that have changed my life, and will forever have an impact on the person I am to become. I don't want to let these important people in my life go. They're just like family to me, and I would do anything for my family. They mean the world to me.