Everything changes in the world: the sea, the clouds, the leaves on the trees, our moods, and sad to say, even our friendships. It's interesting to me how one false word, movement, or feeling can ruin a wonderful thing. I knew friendships were fragile but I had hoped that after being nourished, that differences could be forgotten because of a deeper link. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
One minute a person is in your life, touching it for good or evil, leaving a footprint on your heart. The next day or minute, that person has vanished and you start to realize the little things that you now miss. The touch, the smell, the gesture, the thought, the laugh. How fleeting time really is in our lives, do we really treasure those around us enough that we tell them that? Do we REALLY understand that we could not just be gone tomorrow, but within the next hour or even minute; and so could any of numerous people that we love.
Part of our masks is to not show our feelings, our true, deeply held feelings that we for each other. Most of us are taught from young children, once we've embarrassed our parents, that we don't say those things. And so it is, we continue to not say "anything" for fear that we will offend someone, embarrass someone, or that we might get rejected.
How can you taste the bitter if you've never had the sweet? And how do you know what you've lost, if you've never opened your heart and let them in in the first place.
