My mom had a fridge magnet that said "friends come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime." Not everyone was meant to stay with us forever. Remembering this always makes it easier for me to close off a relationship, knowing that they've probably already served their purpose in my life. It helped during every move my family made while I was growing up and it helps me now as an adult.
I chose to terminate a friendship. Not on hurtful terms, but just because our lives have taken different paths that have no future of crossing again. And this is a good place to leave it; our two paths running parallel, as opposed to apart. If we see each other around town we can say hi with ease, and respect each others existence. We just won't be hanging out, having dinner, sharing moments. Which is fine and definitely for the best.
As Neil so poignantly put it ... "Sometimes the best way to be a friend is to stop being a friend." Couldn't have put it better myself.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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I really needed that quote! A friendship just ended and it was like a slap in the face! So i guess their "season" of being friends is over. That's more comforting to think of it that way.
It really is, just to think that God gave them to us for some reason ... even if we don't know what it is at the time :)
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