It's been a long time...

I shouldn't have left you, without a dope blog to read through :) That's my take on Aaliyah's Try Again -- remember Timbaland's part at the beginning? You would think I was a huge Aaliyah fan... not so much ;)

Life has been interesting.

Trying at some points. Very cool for the most part.

A lot has happened in the past four weeks and it's made me think. I wrote a blog on my regular blog page called 'What about your friends?' It was about a friend I once had and the demise of that friendship.

Writing the blog, I didn't think she was going to read it because I hadn't heard from her in five years. So, I wrote what I wanted to write -- not really thinking anything of her reading it.

Well, you know when you don't think of something that's exactly what happens.

I got an irate email from this young woman a couple of days after I sent out my reminder email. The girl proceeded to cuss me out.

I was shocked.

I mean, I didn't know where she was or what she was doing, so I had no reason to believe that she was reading my words. She never emailed or commented as far as I knew.

I got pissed off. I hadn't heard from her -- I didn't have a phone number or email address to try to reach her with. She had moved and never passed on her contact information. But she had my information and didn't feel the need to use it until she wanted to cuss me out.

That annoyed the heck out of me. I don't owe her anything -- I don't think I do. Besides, my blog is where I can express myself and my feelings without judgment. Yes, in a way it is a public forum -- especially if I'm sending out emails telling people that there's new information, but it's private in that, I'm not naming names. Everyone has a pseudonym 'cause I don't think it would be fair to expose someone and the person doesn't have the opportunity to defend his/herself.

Friendships are truly for a reason, a season or a lifetime. Our friendship was for a season and now it's done. Am I sad? Surprisingly, no. The friendship was finished a long time ago when I realized that I was trying to keep the friendship alive. I'm relieved, 'cause there has been closure, something that I hadn't had in a long time.