Disappear?

As I grew older and wiser...
I became more selective about whom I spent my time with...
I filtered, I found good friends, I drifted from others.
Naturally as I become selective, I became more stubborn and my grip grew a little tighter.
I handpicked those whom I wanted to kept close.

I have learned that we can't corral people into a pen and lock them away forever.
They won't stay put and we shouldn't have to convince them otherwise.
It seem obvious enough that relationships, like all other things do change, grow and even dissipate.
But that doesn't mean that it's an easy thing to accept...

Time can turned close friend into distant acquaintances.
Our lives are in constant motion. We change every single day.
Sometimes, we forget that the people who surround us also change everyday.
Some relationships may grow together, shift and bend in ways that make them fit comfortably.
Some relationships are more forgiving and hang on for the sake of the love that was one binding and now hangs around as a memory.
But some don't last...
Some get destroyed...
Some disappear slowly and some cease to exist abruptly.

Instead of focusing on the loss, maybe one should start to focus on the beautiful things each persons brought into their life. Knowing that your relationship had a purpose and convincing yourself that ultimately, the purpose was achieved is a great way to gain closure.

We are all moving and changing, we need different things from the world at different times in our lives.
We want different things, we view the world in different lights.
We are all essentially just bumping into each other, stuck together until another crack in the road sends us free falling into something or someone else.

Surround yourself with friends who make you better.
No one can save all friendships and the one that can't be saved are sometimes the ones that don't need to be.
You can never know the direction in which people will go and grow and change.

We can only try our best to keep the people that we really appreciate in our field of vision at all times, but also understand that life has its own way of throwing us around. Understand that these
are just realities.
It doesn't feel good to give up on people or relationships but sometimes, holding on feels worse.

RANDOM THOUGHTS AS USUAL :P