Thursday, April 15, 2010
Sometimes life gives you some time to just go..........hummmmmmmmm
To everything there is a season.
Today I had a conversation with a young friend of mine. She was sharing how there were people in her life that were always "letting her down". She was trying to process if it was time to just let those people go. She told me she didn't want to burn bridges ..but I just told her...you don't have to burn anything..but you CAN walk to the other side.
As she and I chatted, I thought about a lot of the feeling I have been having about my own 'friends'. It is always hard, when you have a close, connected relationship with another person and you end up feeling 'let down'. One of those people you talk to most everyday. One of those people you can share anything with and they can share anything with you. Then after years of being in each others lives something seems to change and the phone calls stop happening and the distance starts to creep in.
Sometimes it can be an event that causes things like this to happen. But there are also times that nothing really 'happens'...but that person just seems to be GONE from you.
I have been around a long time and much longer than my young friend. But I must admit, that those times in my life when this has happened to me has been some of my lowest times of my life.
I have always taken time to look at myself...see if I am just too honest or too depressing and bring that other person down with me..therefore they run away. I have always tried to get these people to talk to me about what might have happened...how I make them feel or how 'they' are feeling.
If it has been how they do feel about me and how I effect them and this has been the case, no one has ever shared that is how they have felt. Most often they have shared, their life has become filled with a new job, doing new and busy things with their kids, connecting with a new husband..and the list goes on.
At any rate, I don't know really why we lose friends that have seemed so close to us...but after having it happen to me in my life...I can only think it is just part of life.
To everything there is a season.
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