There are occasions that allow, and even encourage a complete renegotiation of the elements of your life. The beginning and end of university are two prominent occasions that I think give the individual the opportunity to be utterly introspective of their circumstances.
At this point, there are a million possibilities. Each one of these demand some degree of renegotiation. We are not necessarily conscious of it, but each day we change the relationship we have with the world and people around us. When we are conscious, it can be overwhelming. When we leave a place that we have become attached to, we are inherently aware of the fact that friends come and friends go, and suddenly, friendship becomes a choice rather than an occurrence. It becomes an active commitment to maintain human bonds. Across distance, geographically established acquaintances fade into Facebook’s obscurity. We keep a warehouse of people we can reach out to, blindly, in hopes of rekindling the old romance of some safe place.
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