Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Nothing endures but change

I realize how isolated I feel from a lot of people.

I also realize I've pretty much always been this way. It's not like I can't have a good time with people from high school or something, even the two girls from middle school I've kept sort of in touch with. But as Baxter said, our lives have all gone in different directions to the point where you just can't relate to a lot of people anymore. What does that mean, though, for a person like me, who has always had a hard time relating to others? Do I really understand the people I still call my friends, who were my friends in high school?

It's not that I don't have friends at UF. I have plenty, and I'm reasonably happy with my life now. But as we all know, the true test of friendship---or whatever passes as such----is time. I have had some taste of who actually bothered to keep tabs on me when I was away for the summer. Rebe is one of them. Regi and Sofi I talked to a little bit too, and of course Alex, my profligate sister/fiancee.

But they are what they are, and things work out as what they're meant to work out as.

Amen, and so be it.