…are overrated. Or so is the conclusion that I had arrived at a little while ago.
No, I don’t hold this view anymore. I have been blessed with some of the most amazing friends I could have ever asked for. In fact, when I come home I feel like I don’t even have enough time to see all of them. And there lies the problem. Yes, I have friends up in Seattle, I have a few wonderful friends. But the majority of my friends are scattered all over the place. Only during large holidays are we all in one place and able to reconnect.
I know that it life. You have friends who come and go. But thats the problem. It’s not that friends come and go, it’s that the friendships with them are in and out. Distance is hard. We all stay so busy. It’s hard to nurture the friendships I want to be able to nurture. I feel like most of the time I know the people I want to invest in so badly, but don’t do a good job at investing until I’m in the moment, in their presence. When I spend so much of my time apart from the people I care about the most, it makes things hard.
But, no matter what happens in life during the time that has passed, I still have these amazing people to connect with when we all return to our hometown. I value that so much. I’m blessed. And I love having these people in my life.
