Friendship

When friends disappear from your life, it is often sad and can be for a variety of reasons. These can be obvious: for instance, when someone dies, then you might feel they left too soon and you wish you had done more for them or told them how you felt about them. Feeling guilty doesn’t actually change that, and sometimes it can be an indulgence which you hope might act as a penance, but usually, that it doesn’t work.

Then there are the friends who you no longer see because distance has separated you. Many of those friends were there to support you or you them, when you were close-by, and that reason no longer exists. So no need to feel guilty, is there.

But sometimes, we lose a friend and have no idea why: you just lost touch or had a difference of which you were unaware. That was not a friendship then, was it? Or maybe you were the one fulfilling the need and not the other way around. So again, why feel guilty?

          New beginnings, new endings, accept them all without guilt and treasure your friends while you have them, and for the short or the long term.