Connections

I’m one of those people who is comfortable in small circles and, as such, I have a small group of friends whom I’ve known for many years. It once was a point of pride for me to know that the people I’ve known since Junior High School are still amongst my closest friends. However as we’ve gotten older and our lives have become ever more unlike one another’s, I find that the connections we’ve maintained for so long are growing thin and strained. It’s not an active tension, rather it’s more a gradual dissolution. We’ve all grown apart. (more…)