Moving Around New and Old Circles

Life changes... that's a given. And with life changing, so do friend circles. Some will stay as they value your friendship, as you do theirs, but others will just disappear into thin air. And that's ok. The universe has a way of making you keep the people in your lives that are meant to be there, and discarding those who create negativity, sadness, anger or unnecessary gossip to make room for new people to enter your lives.

A few weeks back, I posted a pic of my Grade 3 class from 1982 on my personal Facebook account. There were 35 children in that class, and the response I had from that was really overwhelming. There were 9 children who were labelled in the pic of which different circles of people who know me on Facebook were able to be labelled, and 7 of them made comment or liked the pic. There was even a mother of one of the children making comment. There was also another 3 children from the same year level commenting or liking, who were in the other class. Between us, we could name almost all the children and had some extraordinary memories of our teacher. I thought that was a pretty good effort from something over 30 years ago.

And somehow, in that circle, there is one girl who just so happens to be sending her son to the same school as my son will be going to next year, and we've been catching up over the last week because of orientation days. It really becomes a small world.

Then just the simple act of moving home or new neighbours moving in, joining a new club or spending a significant amount of time in a different location can create new friendships. And sometimes that's all you need to appreciate what you already have, feel alive and enjoyed for who you are.

But, the best of friends, won't just talk about their sad stories, support you through your hard times, be excited about reaching their life goals or your life goals, they will make you laugh... and that's what great friends do for you, and they are the ones to hold onto. They make you realise that no matter how hard life can be, they will make you laugh and de-stress about the hardest situations, and hug you when the tears and fears become too much. Real friends won't judge... but they can make you see things in a different light.

It doesn't matter if they are old or new friends, every friend is important. And I am thankful for each and every one of them. x