People and other things of that ilk...

There's this saying that from time to time rears it little head that goes something like - people come into and out of our lives for a reason or a season, enjoy them while you can, and remember them when their gone, they all serve a purpose, some blatantly others, well we just don't know why but we know there was a reason - okay so it's a paraphrase of a couple of phrases but hey it's my rambling so flow with it.


Friends will come and go, some times repeatedly. It's cliché but it's true, at least in my world and in that way I truly do feel blessed. I am so very grateful for all the people who have come into my world, are presently in my world, or just briefly passed through. I manage to learn something from each and everyone of them and without them I might have missed something great. So I thank you all here and now, cause I know I haven't always been the best "fill in the blank here" but I've treasured and continue to treasure what ever we had, did or said. Even the bad stuff, it is what makes me a better (or worse - you choose) person.

With the advent of technology it is so much easier to stay in touch with long lost friends and family, but is it - easier I mean - I have dear friends who are so far away (and right next door) who have for many years been out of my reach, mostly because of laziness on my part, but out of my reach none the less. And yet here, with the advent of such wonderful things as Email, Facebook, Twitter and the like I am able to daily see their faces and surreptitiously watch small snippets of their todays and feel if only briefly that I am apart of their lives once again.

The same goes with family. Now I don't have a very large family and for me that's good. I have a lot of difficulty working out side my immediate surroundings so a large family is just not really what I was made for, but my family - what little there is - is important to me. I may not be demonstrative in the ways that I should but that doesn't diminish their importance to me and so I like being able, once again, if only briefly, to be a part of their everyday lives as well.

So, for good or bad technology has allowed even the laziest of us to maintain some sort of "relationship" with other humans whom we may or may not have been able to keep track of without it. But is it a good thing? I mean if there's a "reason for the season" wouldn't the fates be a little perturbed that we keep a person a part of our lives through this technology long after their shelf date?

Here's my thought - I tend to go with the everything happens for a reason rule. If I'm not supposed to be in these peoples lives or they aren't supposed to be in my then my friend request will just be rejected right?

Or maybe, just maybe, by sheer dumb luck- my shelf life has been extended. Or...perhaps there's just simply more I'm supposed to learn.

That's all.