Page Turner

You bump into her at your local coffee shop after not talking to her for over five years. You all were so close that one day without a phone call to each other was almost sinful back then. This was a woman that you would talk to at least twice a day, She could finish your sentences before you could. Your opinion and trust was valued more than anyone else’s in her life. There were no hard feelings or a major altercation that resulted in this absence of years from one another’s lives. Whether it was a relationship, marriage, careers, children or just life. Whatever it was there was a long lapse in communication between the two of you. Days, months and years of a severed connection with a person that you would have never imagined could be broken. So now you all are here sitting in this coffee shop sipping on your mocha’s. Looking at each other with all this eerily unfamiliarity between you both. You all catch up with each of your individual lives and the experiences had over this time. There’s talk of keeping in contact and getting back to where you used to be. To not allow any more days to go by without being involved in one another’s life. It was in that lengthy four hours of caffeine and conversation that you realized how much of strangers you all are. In that time, in that chair throughout your exchange of words. You realize that the difference between you both is way bigger than the the years away from her. The way you think, how you live, the outlook on life is just polar opposites. Neither is better or worse than one, you’re just completely different people.In that instant you realize that your distance from each other was your distance from each other. At a certain age or level in life you learn that growth and change can drift people apart. There were things that bridged us together when we were younger. And as we grow within ourselves and examining our views and aspirations in our lives. That is where the shift in friendships begins. Some are forever and others are for a season. Some close friendships drastically change into cordial acquaintances. It is not insulting to say that sometimes some people outgrow others. That there are people that still remain in the same stage that you surpassed years ago. This is not about wealth that affords one a more lavish lifestyle than the other. This is not about one’s life being more established than the other. This is about a mentality that just isn’t relatable between two people. Sometimes people just aren’t on the same page. And with the many chapters in our life there comes time when you just have to respectfully turn the page. Do you have a page turner in your life?