Levels of Friendship

There are many levels of friendship and as we grow older they change. There are friends that we have and keep through the years at the same level. You speak very often and know what is happening in their lives in real time. There are the friends that you were close to at one point and due to logistics or lifestyles, you lose touch. When you do reconnect every so often, it is like you never skipped a beat and have that same feeling of kinship. The last level is a friend that you were close to once but now have nothing in common with. When you do speak, it does not make a difference in your life and even seems awkward. Their status has changed from a friend to a stranger with memories, and that is sad. Sometimes losing a friendship means that you have grown as a person and are no longer the same. That is not a bad thing.