Dear So and So

[indysteel]

Thanks for all the hugs. You guys are great.

You know, it's really hard to stay close to my old friends just because we don't have the same things in common anymore, but it's not like we stopped liking each other. I don't know, maybe my BC news freaked them out more than they let on. Who knows.

I think sometimes we let our guilt about having fallen out of touch with someone prevent us from reaching out when something "big" happens, be it an illness, a death or a major life change. That, and some people just underestimate how much these gestures mean in difficult times. We convince ourselves that something like a card or an email asking how you're doing doesn't matter in the grand scheme of what you're facing. But as you know, it does....