Roses Are Red... Violets Are Blue... I'm...

I've always heard that friendships can be for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. It makes sense in a weird way. You know, some friendships are put in your path to teach you a lesson or help with something in your life. Those friendships may not endure but you're sure glad about them. Other friendships are fleeting; that can be sad. For someone nostalgic (I am too nostalgic myself) those friendships that don't endure can be really painful. As I grow older I am a lot more understanding and accepting that people grow in different directions, not all towards the sun like those time-lapse movies of flowers we watched in elementary school. Usually when a friendship ends it isn't with a bang or a whimper... just a strange nothingness.

The lifetime friendships are pretty strange too. Often there is a friend (maybe more for some lucky people) who has been there since the beginning and continues to be there. However, life isn’t always linear. Sometimes even that lifetime friend meanders in and out several times like a drunk driver heading towards a Denny’s.

I am lucky. I’ve recently been reunited with a friend from the past. There is a bit of euphoria when you find someone who has been missing for a while. That might be a little understated. I’ve been thoroughly thrilled to reconnect. I believe this friendship is one that exists for a reason and will last a lifetime. …makes me smile!