This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Albizu chapter.
We grow up, we get to know people, they later become friends or some even “best friends”. This is very common from our teenage years throughout being young adults, where we get to know many people in our community, school, jobs and other extra-curricular activities. With this, we even get to form “cliques” and get really close with some…but, what happens when you just grow apart from those with whom you shared so much with? Life may interfere in the way of you spending time together. Many people say it’s all about “prioritizing”. I differ because I’ve been in a point in my life where I just work and study for 16 hours a day. Believe me, I have no break at times to check your text or your last post in Facebook, I have many other stuff in mind.
We are in constant evolution and development. We may discover many things about us along the way, about ourselves and our peers. Maybe we don’t think alike anymore, our interests have changed and we don’t enjoy doing certain stuff anymore together. I’m sorry if you think that I don’t care anymore about you, believe me I do. I talk about you to my new friends every time I have the opportunity, I treasure our special moments together and I still remember the moment that I met you. I’m happy and I hope you are too, or at least on the road to it. I may not answer your messages as fast as before, or I may not even answer your calls. We are not synchronized and when you call me, I’m studying, at a meeting or catching up on some sleep. Even though we’ve changed, you are still in my future plans, I hope our schedules finally agree and we get to meet soon.
This is the exciting part of life: changes. People are not meant to be there always, we will get to know people more alike us or sometimes the contrary. They come to teach us a lesson or to be our partners in some way of our journey and we need to accept this to truly be happy and to live a more peaceful life. Chapters close and others open, but never re-open. That is my advice from experience. What is, just is. What’s meant to be, will be. I’m happy that I got to be part of your life in such a significant way, I hope you do too.
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