Recently I have been contacted by people fom the past that I used to know - a primary school friend, friends from university, friends from my chambering days. The way I look at it, if someone was important enough to stay in my life and vice versa, we would've stayed in touch even after going our separate ways. And for those who I did not keep in touch with and vice versa, it just means that for whatever reason, they were not important enough for me, just as I was not important enough for them. This is despite the fact that for the period when our paths crossed we may have had fun, exciting and good times. I think saying goodbye is just a part of life.
So I don't understand this need to suddenly get together and meet up after years of absence. The problem with that is that they may not be the same people they were, and because we were not in touch in the interceding years, we did not have the opportunity of watching each other grow as individuals. This, I think, can be pretty awkward.
What I'm trying to say is that there are times when one forms alliances and bonds with other human beings, and then the circumstance warrants that we go our separate ways so that what we once shared will remain only as memories and nothing more.
I, for one, being anti-social and a Lone Ranger, would like to keep it that way.
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