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What brought my friends and I together over the years has changed, and that has also changed how much individual people have a presence in my life.
If I met them growing up, our friendship was sustained by interaction in similiar interests and hobbies. Once I left the place I grew up and moved 3,000 miles away, maintaining those friendships did not come naturally for a variety of reasons.
I'm now suffering (or not, depending on your view) the change in friendships when your priorities in life change. While I am single, many of my friends are married with very young children, or expecting.
And sometimes... people just drift away, only to reconnect years later. I've had quite a few of those experiences this year. Some drifts happen much more abruptly then others and for a few I'll never quite know what was the cause. Its life.
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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna
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