When friendships end

When a friendship begins the hope is that it will sustain itself over time and tribulations. You slowly build a relationship in which you can be yourself and share what is happening in your life. Time passes and that relationship is filled with memories that sustain it. In some cases the friendship is short lived as your life paths diverge. Then there are those friendships that continue for years. I thought that my best friend through high school and college would last forever. However, once I relocated to another part of the country, I watched it slowly fade. Eventually it faded into the annual Christmas card with a perfunctory note attached. I only learned of his death coincidentally in a FaceBook post from his daughter. With it came a sense of sadness and loss. I recalled the evenings we spent in our youth laughing hysterically at the simplest things. Of course there were the typical antics that young men engage in that I still recall today with nostalgia. It was not an ending I would have predicted when we first met. But endings are inevitable. Nothing lasts forever except those memories. Think about the friendships you have had or currently have. What are you doing to celebrate them today?

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