Relationships are hard, there is no doubt about it. Sustaining a friendship for decades is even harder. As we progress through life holding the hand or hands of the friends who we love the most can be tricky especially when life takes on career, travel, marriage and kids. What happens when the one person or persons takes on a different path and decide that what they loved about you twenty years ago is no longer the case? I’m fortunate and grateful that there are those precious few who have truly been my friend for many decades, but there are also friendships that have come into my life and just as easily departed. For that I feel sad at the loss. There were no disputes, no disagreements, we simply drifted. The phone calls became obsolete, there were less things to say. I sometimes ask ‘Could I have done more?’

Published: Sylvia Jimenez