Lunch

Today I had lunch with one of my most favorite people, Lisa Garret!! Also, one of my really dear friends Rachel was there as well. I love both of them... its funny... we used to go to church together (this isn't haha funny, its more, "that's interesting" funny). Anyway, I don't get to talk to either one of them much, and I love how no matter how longs it has been, no matter what we've been through, we can just pick up where we left off with each other. Its totally comfortable and unchanging. I LOVE IT. I think its sad though, because I went to this church for almost 17 years... and now I'm not a part of their lives anymore... before I could pick up the phone and anytime anyplace and talk to them about anything.. and its not that I can't do that anymore, its just different. You grow up and things change, I am married and have a 4 month old little boy! Its wonderfully different. I do dislike that I don't have those relationships that I cherished so much.. Those people were there for me through a really hard time in my life, and I probably would have ended up a whole lot worse had they not been there for me. I kinda like 'em. I always say.. "I really miss going to church there", my husband has to remind me that I miss the way it was when I was 16... things change, people change, people leave, politics become a part of your life as you get older and they become more aware to you. Growing up is wonderful in parts and sad in parts. Why do you have to loose those special relationships that keep you accountable? Is it part of the growing up process? Its not fair, you learn to love people and you become attached... and then they vanish as if they were never there, as if they were of your imagination.