I’ve often wondered this myself.

I’ve had many people that I have considered a best friend or even like a brother over the years. As far as I know the feeling was mutual. Sure, life happens but I always thought friends were for life, especially as important as they were. So where have they gone and why haven’t they been in touch?

Some of my absolute best friends have just completely vanished and have never tried to be in touch since. Some I have found through Facebook or the like and have said they weren’t interested in being in touch. Many know how to find me and contact me but they just don’t. The reasons are many but they just sound like excuses. I understand that life changes constantly over the years and sometimes not for the better but I have never understood how these people that I spent years with and truly cared for have just written me out completely. A phone call is so easy. It really doesn’t take much to keep in touch. Of all the many awesome friends I have made over the years since being in my teenage years and now in my early 50s, not one of the people that was so close and important in my life has kept in touch. My best friends and I spent time together gether pretty much daily for years and it’s like it was just a convenient way to kill time now. I think I was brain washed as a child watching Laverne and Shirley and thinking friends were for life and always in touch or in your life or something. I suppose it’s common place that people move on and don’t care to be a friend anymore. Wish I had known that when I was making friends.

At times it has been tempting, for the reasons above, to not make any new friends at all anymore. Sometimes I didn’t but have come to the conclusion that just because 99 percent of people live like that and forget others or forget friends, it’s people like us that are in need to be the loving people we are and continue to be a friend and more importantly show others how to do it too. There’s not enough love in the world so keep on showing and spreading love as long as you can. Nothing is wrong with you

I.