How many people do you still know from your school days? Those very first friends you made back when you were just a tiny person. And even those friends you made along the journey of growing into a teenager, into a college/uni student, and then into adulthood. How many lovers, partners, or old work colleagues are you still in touch with? Hell, even family members, especially those more distant ones that you only ever see at weddings or funerals.
People are constantly entering and exiting your life. Now I've got a handful of people that I feel will remain in my life forever. My best friend from college. My best friend from uni. My best friends from Topshop. My best friend in London. Aside from those few people everyone else will come and go. Some silently, due to a job change, a relocation, a simple drifting apart. Some with a bang after something (usually overly) dramatic. In the next 5 years I may no longer know a lot of the people in my life. In 10 years even more so. And in 40 years? Who knows.
We are changing all the time, evolving, learning more about ourselves, picking up new traits and hobbies, getting rid of others. We lose connections with people, and while getting to know someone more and more can lead to getting closer with that person, sometimes knowing a person even better only makes you realise you have very little in common at all. And although every person that comes into your life makes some sort of impact on you, however strong, it is only those really important people that really leave a mark. It's those who you have to hang on to.
I'm not really sure what the overall moral of this was. I guess I'm saying that people come, people go, but what's important is that you enjoy your time with whoever is in your life right now, because tomorrow they just might not be there.
That it all.
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