on relationships

during my teenage and college years, i always had friends around me. it wasn't difficult to find to a group of friends to hang out with and identify with. to me, friends were an abundant... resource.[this terminology reflects how i took relationships for granted and how little value i placed them with...more on this later]

now that i've graduated college, married, and have had a child, many people have entered and left my life. Facebook gives the illusion that these people have NOT left my life and i feel i have bought into that illusion for a long time. out of all those hundreds of people that have entered my life, only a few have stayed. granted, multiple factors must align for a relationship to be sustained such as employment, location, interest, etc. and so many of these factors are indeed out of my control that i have once thought that the relationships i have in the present is a divine present.

because of the low number of people that have stayed, friends have become a scarcity.