Today was a do-over attempt for me and a pair of dear friends to get together. We had scheduled to meet for brunch last week, and then one of the friends couldn't make it because she just had too much to do to get her family ready for their trip over Fall Break. So we didn't meet.
Today we were going to try again, but one of the friends has a preschooler who came down with croup over the break and can't go to preschool today. So we didn't meet.
I'm not going to lie. It is a bummer. It isn't a life or death kind of disappointment, but I do feel the loss of my friends. We haven't gotten together in some months and I was really looking forward to catching up with them both.
I have several small groups of friends like this. I know in some cases, it is a natural separation and and eventual drifting apart. Our lives change and we grow apart. That happens. But it is still sad.
I miss having the number of ready friends to work with at school, catch up with over lunch or sit and visit with to vent or console or ask advice. Now this isn't to say that I feel bereft of friends. I don't fell that at all. I just wish we all had more free time to be together. But families are busy. Moms go back to work. Kids get sick. Life makes demands on all of us. It just happens.
I still keenly feel affection for each one who has been important in my life. I hope that part never changes. But I sure wish sometimes that life would slow down and we'd have more time to be together. But I have yet to see any change in the speed of life beyond getting faster. I guess that is just how it goes.
And I'll learn to deal with it, whether I like it or not.
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