Yesterday my sister reflected upon her relationships with people she considered at one time or another a best friend. This includes the one in her childhood, and the one currently. She told me she didn't know why, but all of a sudden, she was drifting from her current best friend of about 4 years. My answer to her problem was this:

People change, plain and simple. You two have changed and have become completely different people than you were 4 years ago. In the process, you lost whatever you had in common, so naturally, you don't feel as close anymore.

This morning, upon waking up, I realized that this would explain my trouble with holding on to friends. Ever since I entered the heady time of adolescence, I changed rapidly though I appeared to stay the same to most. I always felt more mature than my peers, and even now I do. I look around and see them, as well as younger generations, making partying the point of their lives; going to parties, getting drunk and taking pride in the fact that they got incredibly smashed. I never could understand the charm of that, and I still don't. As such, it has been incredibly difficult to hold on to friendships with people my age or younger.

Of course, on the internet it's easier to do this. We don't interact with one another in those intangible ways that allow us to tell whether someone has changed or not. In other words, internet friendships are easier to maintain because change is far less obvious.

So there you have it, a revelation that struck me only a few minutes ago. An explanation to an aspect of my life I have always wonder about up until now. If you have read all of that, then I thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Daniel Caceres AKA Khris Kazeras