Thoughts about friendship

Some friendships last a lifetime; others just a time or a season. Sometimes friends will fade gradually out of your life; sometimes there is a definite endpoint to the friendship – a trigger or an event. There are friends with whom contact can be infrequent but when you do finally manage to catch up with each other, the conversation flows easily and naturally and it feels like you can pick up exactly at the point where you last left off. With other friends, time, space and distance seem to push a wedge between you and conversation becomes more of an effort.