Flashback Friday: Gettin' Deep.

This picture was snapped of me by someone I used to know in a town I grew up in. I think I was eighteen or nineteen - definitely going through my first ever heart-break. Remember those?

It was a cloudy day and my friend and I had just gone for coffee at what used to be called "William's." I was feeling nostalgic and dragged her to the place where my first love and I met.

Her, being an artist, decided to take pictures of me being a total sad-sack. I'm not really into having pictures taken, so I kept trying to dodge her camera and eventually wound up laughing.

That's what friends are for... Exploiting your girly emotions to the point of laughter, and forcing you realize you're just being a drama queen.

This day turned out to be not so cloudy after all, thanks to a girl I haven't spoken to in over five years. Where do people go when they exit your life?

Is it really this easy to remove yourself from a bad emotional/mental space when you've got a partner in crime to make you laugh? Yes.

But sometimes it's those people you let get close to you who really know how to bring you back to the bad times and rip your heart out all over again (non-specific to a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship).

I've been thinking a lot lately about friends I haven't spoken to in a long time. High school friends who I fought with stupidly, and wrote off or who wrote me off.

Some of them are married with children, some have been through a divorce or suffered a loss. Guaranteed all of them could have used me around to make them laugh, and vice versa. As an adult, I've learned to take my time tossing away relationships - because a good friend is hard to come by. I wish I hadn't been so quick to write certain people off.

Then again, my biggest fault is being naive. Is it so wrong to want to believe that there's good in everyone? I'm not afraid to find out!

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