A long time ago, we used to be friends
Nov. 6th, 2007 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlHave you ever had someone in your life, someone you considered a very close friend...but life and circumstances just made you drift apart? My friend A. and I used to be tight, and then she moved to Milwaukee and I moved to Seattle. Obviously, things shifted and changed and our communication started coming less frequently. She got married. I haven't even met her husband.
But I knew we were no longer really friends long before all that. One year, exchanging holiday and birthday gifts, I presented her with a well thought-out gift, something that fit her tastes and personality and she gave me...an animated, musical cookie jar shaped like Scooby Doo. At that point, I remember an overwhelming urge to burst into tears right there, and a horrible thought that we might have never really been friends at all, because she honestly thought that was the perfect gift for me.
Anyway. Last night, I got one solitary piece of mail. It was from A. Inside the envelope was a birth announcement for her second baby.
I didn't even know she was pregnant again.
I'm pretty sure it's just me - I know lots of people have friends they stay in touch with since high school and/or college. I just can't seem to. I'm a fairly solitary creature, so that might be it. It depresses me, though. Even with good friends, I'll respond to emails and calls and such and get nothing in return.
We Used To Be Friends
But I knew we were no longer really friends long before all that. One year, exchanging holiday and birthday gifts, I presented her with a well thought-out gift, something that fit her tastes and personality and she gave me...an animated, musical cookie jar shaped like Scooby Doo. At that point, I remember an overwhelming urge to burst into tears right there, and a horrible thought that we might have never really been friends at all, because she honestly thought that was the perfect gift for me.
Anyway. Last night, I got one solitary piece of mail. It was from A. Inside the envelope was a birth announcement for her second baby.
I didn't even know she was pregnant again.
I'm pretty sure it's just me - I know lots of people have friends they stay in touch with since high school and/or college. I just can't seem to. I'm a fairly solitary creature, so that might be it. It depresses me, though. Even with good friends, I'll respond to emails and calls and such and get nothing in return.
We Used To Be Friends
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Date: 2007-11-07 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-07 05:26 pm (UTC)This I understand. Some of my RL friends wonder why I don't keep in touch as often, but when I call I have nothing to say. Honestly, I have nothing interesting happening right now and the last thing I want to do is call and complain.
The meloncoly is understandable.