When people say they’re “fine” or “doing great”…how often do they really mean it?  I, personally, often say I’m fine or doing great when in reality…my life might suck at the moment.  But I’m not about to tell it like it is to a friend I haven’t talked to in ages, or someone I don’t know that well…

Makes one wonder.

It’s weird when you reconnect with friends you haven’t seen in a long time and notice that that person changed so much…even into someone you’d never become friends with currently, had you not already been friends in the past because, in the past, you were much more similar…like a friend who’s become a punk-rock kinda guy when you knew him as a nerdy anime-lover, or a friend who became crazy about God when before, he’d been crazy about girls…as I get older, I experience so many new things, and the shock of seeing old friends having changed into someone totally unexpected definitely cannot be experienced as a child.  I wonder if I ever give people that shock?