Reflecting on the past

I had a conversation today with some girls that I went to high school with. One of them I even went to elementary school with. It came up in our conversation that there are things in life that make you stop and think and realize that life is too short to forget about old friends and let time pass by. Sometimes life gets busy and we carry on with our routines. We forget to take the time to just say hi or catch up on how people who once were so close to us are doing. I don't want to hear of another old friend passing away and saying to myself, I wish I hadn't lost touch with them. I often come across a lot of people that say they don't want to join the world of facebook or myspace because they want to forget the part of their life when they were in high school and they would rather forget all the people from back then b/c they have moved on with their life. They think they are a different person now and things have changed. Things may have changed and you may be a different person but if it weren't for all those people that you've met along the way in your life and for all of those awkward moments you had...you wouldn't be the person that you are today. I truly believe that each person that I come across in life or each situation that I have to walk through in life, changes me a little to make me the person that I am. I hope that I am able to teach my kids this lesson so that they can walk through life realizing that just as much as it is important to have good moments, it's also okay to have the bad. And just as much as it is important to have great friends, it is also important to have people in your life that you can't understand. We learn and we grow from these things. I am truely thankful to be able to catch up with old friends and meet new ones or even get to know people from my past that I didn't have the oppurtunity to get to know so well before. Here's to old friends and new-thankful for all the things you have contributed to making me-me!