This is the second one I’ve seen too, although the first one was a few weeks ago. Anyway, I don’t know but there may be a glitch somewhere.
So many people have come and gone in my life it doesn’t bother me when I lose touch with people. Friends, family, whatever.
My former best friend who I mentioned earlier, I thought maybe we’d be best friends for life. And although we talk on Facebook from time to time, it’s not the same. And I have a wife, but she has Muscular Dystrophy and is convinced she’ll die in her 40’s (we’re both 37). So, if she’s correct (obviously I hope she isn’t), I won’t have her for life either.
I’m male, and my best friend has been a part of my life for 13 years now. We roomed together in college, I still visit every couple of weeks, part of my move across the country hinged on knowing he lived close. We’re close enough that not only do we often finish each others’ thoughts and sentences, there have been times that we’ve called each other by our own names. He’s as close to a second copy of myself as I can imagine. If we suddenly were no longer friends, I would be crushed. I would have an incredibly hard time understanding how either of us could have changed so much without one of us noticing.
I wouldn’t say “devastated” for a long period of time, but certainly “heavy hearted” for a long, long period of time. I continue to be greatly saddened and bothered by the loss of a significant friend. It is not something that dogs me and keeps me preoccupied all the time or anything like that, but it still occasionally gives me stress dreams.