One of the sadder parts of life is losing people. Both in the sense of having loved ones die, but also losing people from your life.
I think we lose people for lots of reasons, people move away, we move on or events drive us apart.
I recently found out that a friend of my brother's, and to a lesser degree, of mine, had passed a year ago. I regret not making more of an effort to connect and catch up - and now it's too late. To be fair, she had her own family she was spending time with, and I had my problems to deal with. But I'm not sure that is a good enough reason to have not made the effort.
All our lives are filled with people we used to know: former neighbours, classmates and work friends. Not to mention the people we meet when out socializing. With electronic communication and the internet it is easier than ever before to be connected, but we aren't. Social media is not for everyone, it is a fine line to choose what to share publicly, and what to keep private.
At any given point in life, we stay close to those who mean the most to us and the people we spend the most time with. In school, it is classmates and in the workforce it is co-workers.
But we leave school, and many of us work in more than one place in our lives. So, how do we choose who to stay in contact with?
For many, I think we are happy to have a general idea what is going on in someone else's life. We feel that the knowledge is the same as being close, but without the personal contact,we become little more than stalkers.
Somehow, I feel better about losing someone in my life than I do about becoming a stalker and observing someone else's life.
Life is best on the field, not in the stands.
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