Best Friends

i noticed for the first time in a long time how sad it is for best friends to stop being best friends.
sometimes its a slow decrease...it happens over a period of time when the two friends have so many different things going on in their lives that they can't find time to be with eachother anymore... they still call everyonce in a while or text when they're bored but they don't hang out anymore, their lives arent intertwined like they used to be & eventually they find that they hardly know eachother . they find new best friends but theres no hard feelings between them, theyre happy for the time they spent together but fine with the mutual decision to not be BFFs anymore.

some best friends however, break up because of silly things; fights over things that don't matter or hard feelings about things that happened in the past, they stop being friends at all & become enemies. & even though they sometimes regret not being friends anymore neither one of them can put away their pride long enough to reach out & patch things up.
the saddest thing though is when it happens without one of the parties involved even knowing it. one person thinks the relationship is fine while the other person is harboring hard feelings about them that they are too scared to admit. a sort of resentment that almost developes over night takes place in the heart of one while the other doesnt suspect a thing. its not until its too late that the other person even notices that the best friend he once had is gone forever....
& it kind of sucks, you know?

& i'm not sure what the point of this particular post is or if it even has a point at all... maybe i just want to remind everyone to hold on to the great friendships they have while they still can, not harbor bad feelings about someone they really care about, reach out to save a friendship thats really worth it & never be the ignorant one in a relationship. maybe i just wanted to remind everyone to appreciate their best friends & have loads of fun with them while theyre still around... or maybe i just wanted to get all this stuff out of my mind...

because i've been in every one of thse situations... i've been in the mutual decision to never go back to being friends, i've been in a stupid fight & lost a great friend over it, & i've been the one making a new best friend while harboring bad feelings against an old one... & its kind of sad, you know? how many friendships we throw away, or how many people we decide not to be friends with even though we hardly know them...

& even now i can think of several people i know in each of these situations... & i find myself hating the fact that they are having to go through this... because more often then not, we regret that we didnt keep up a friendship, & more often then not (whether we choose to admit it or not) we miss our old friends & in some ways we almost just want to jump back into the pictures & be with them again, relive the fun moments, the moments we can never have again...