You can't imagine how important you are to me.
Moving always comes with its own set of challenges and thank heavens we've only had to do it a handful of times. I have a bestie who deals with this every couple years and it has become a bittersweet battle for her. As a result, she has many fabulous friends ALL over North America. I don't have to move around that often, but I think our latest circumstances made this transition a bit more interesting and an overall difficult challenge for me.
I've loved the poem below since I read it years ago... it just puts things into perspective. Moving comes with its own set of challenges... and with some friends, you keep contact for a while and then one day it may fizzle. Sometimes, it's really for no particular reason. With other people you may not speak for eons and then you get together and pick up where you left off as if not even a day had passed. I have learned that friends come and go, and your life goes on. It's been tough this time around to have to leave my network of friends and attempt to rebuild. I miss the day-to-day interactions in a tight-knit community.
I'm thankful for my friendships that have bloomed for a specific reason, or for a particular season, and I'm especially grateful for those I've met along the way that are in it for a lifetime. It's fun to look back and see that I still have friendships with people I met when I was the tender age of five. I'm thankful for each one of you, in near and far places from every phase of my life!
I especially enjoyed having a handful of my San Marcos friends come meet me for lunch at a beautiful Temecula Winery last week. I'm always up for good company, amazing scenery, and yummy food!
Love you all.
(and please ignore the terrible lighting that looks like heads are cut off, etc.)
It was a short and sweet little lunch---let's do it again soon.
Reason, Season, or Lifetime
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is,
you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON,
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty;
to provide you with guidance and support;
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON,
because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons;
things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person,
and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
— Unknown
