30 Days of Truth – Day 9

Day 9: Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted away from.

There are a lot of people I could write about here. Who doesn’t have a list of friends they’ve drifted away from for one reason or another?

When I moved out to Riverside, I drifted away from a lot of my friends, simply because of the distance. It’s roughly 30 miles from where I used to live, but it can be a 2 hour trip if you’re trying it at the wrong time of the day. For a while I drove out all the time to see the people I cared about. But I got a little tired of always being the one to do the travelling. So I cut back, and therefore didn’t see some people as often, since almost no one came out to me. And then it got to be that we didn’t see each other at all. After a few years, we all ended up on Facebook, so I know what’s going on in their lives in a limited capacity, but it’ll never be the same kind of friendship it was. I’m a little sad about that in the case of a few people, but most of the time, it was just a quiet drifting apart with no hostility or animosity on either side.

It’s still one of my personal goals to be a better friend and make sure that drifting apart doesn’t happen. I try and send e-mails, texts, and in some cases cards via snail mail to keep friendships alive. I won’t say I’m perfect at it, because there are a lot of times I mean to do it, and end up playing Angry Birds for more time than I’d like to admit. But I’m trying.