Old Friends Become New Again....

So many people pass through our lives on a daily basis. Most are just casual acquaintances, the ones you work with or see every morning at your local coffee house. You sit and make small talk, people who you know you could never rely on if you needed them but are fun for a daily laugh. Then every once in a while if you are really lucky and the cosmos align you meet that one person who becomes like family, the bond so strong, the connection so great you feel the friendship will pass the test of time. But what happens when that bond is severed?  Sadly I have opened my heart to a few people who have hurt me greatly and whose friendship loss I still mourn.

Lately something strange has begun to happen, friends lost are reaching out and trying to become friends once again, and we too are reaching out to people we haven't spoken to in 20+ years. I am guessing it's that connection these old friends have to our youth, they remind us of a place in time now passed. As you get older and the realization that life is too short creeps in you begin to think differently, maybe it's that mid-life crisis thing rearing it's ugly head.  That said my husband is a much more forgiving person than I, at first my guard was up, why do they want to rekindle what once was? What do they want from us? How do I fit them into the here and now? Casting doubt aside I have embraced the reunions.

Surprising myself,  I have enjoyed this journey thus far, it has brought back fun memories long forgotten. Sometimes you block out how much of your life you shared with these friends. As an added bonus now at least my kids can put faces to names they have only heard about plus they now know we didn't make up those crazy stories we have been telling them for years.

There is that little voice in the back of my head, you threw me aside once will you do it again? Only time will tell.....