People Change.

Some may try to argue, but there’s no use:  people change.  Some for the better, some…well, some not so much.  But people change.  Sometimes the people we are really close to become almost like strangers.  It’s sad, it’s hard to understand, and yet there’s one thing we must realize:  we can’t do anything about it.  All we can do is love them like we always have, and look for the good in who they have become.  Perhaps we won’t have the same group of friends ten years from now…but perhaps we will.  You just never know.

On the other hand, sometimes the people who don’t give us the best first impression, may turn out to be some really great friends in our lives.  Life is funny like that.  It never ceases to amaze me how relationships form, grow, and even fall apart, in this crazy roller-coaster we call our lives.  I’ve learned to be prepared for anything—you may think that people are predictable (which many times they are), but you just never know when life is going to throw you a curve ball or two, or twenty…

People change. But this doesn’t have to be a bad thing.  Let us just remember to love them, to ask them why things are changing, and to do our best to love them for who they have become, or who they are becoming.  As I’ve said before, the most important people in my life today are those who have been with me, and loved me, for who I was, for who I am now, and for who I’m hoping and striving to become.  Life is a process—just make sure yours is filled with people who support your changes, who still love you when times are hard, and who will be there on the long road that we are all traveling to become our true selves.

Let people change…let yourself change.  Change is growth.  We could all use a little growing-up now and then, right?