How is it that people can allow themselves to change friends as simple as me changing shoes? No I am not talking about acquaintances here, those are the people that walk in and out of our lives which we know but do not know. I am talking about those we let into our lives, the ones that we allow to see beyond the restraint we put on, the ones we share our lives with. How can one stand being so close to a person for a length of time and then let it all come to naught? You could be friends one day and strangers the next week.
It is ironic how the winds blow people in and out of our lives, be it a best friend, a close friend, a confidant, or even a potential bastard.
It seems pointless somehow then, to let yourself become close to someone and then like the tide that must draw back, so does the friendship until it drifts away. It is strange how ‘some’ people I know allow that to happen, to let a friendship be lost, that it doesn’t matter that this thing can easily slip away. They move on, life goes on and like I said, it seems to me it is as easy as me changing shoes. All it takes is a couple of minutes to reply an email from an old friend, to let them know you are alive and well, and to find out their well-being, but even this, this has become such a chore that people would rather leave it for tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow…at least until exam time, then all the emails one has to reply suddenly become top priority.
I am puzzled by this strange behaviour I have so observed more so of late. It is not worth the emotional trauma one goes through, cut cold turkey and leaves one hanging and wondering where it all went wrong, when it all went wrong. How could someone be so cruel? To take away a friendship; to take back a friendship after all that has been shared between. The bad part? It is their friendship being taken away, because I will never have the heart to turn a friendship down (unless of course the other person freaks the hell out of me. *cold shiver*).