Where does the time go????

I was talking to my best friend in MD last night about our upcoming visit with each other and got to thinking about how much time has passed. We have known each other for 12 years!!!! Where has all that time gone? It amazes me how her and I can still pick up with each phone call and talk like nothing has changed even though both of us have grown so much as individuals over the years.

She has been the one constant in my life, the one go to person that just gets me. Probably because she understands my crazy family and why I am the way I am better than anyone else in my life. She called me last night needing my advice and it felt good to know that she wanted my advice. I've always kind of admired her, for her outlook on life and her outgoing personality and her willingness to adapt and her determination.

In our conversation though, I started to think wow, I'm going to see one of her sisters who I haven't seen in 11 years and I started to wonder what will she think of me?? I'm not the same girl by any means that I was then. I was so lost, still am a little bit but I think I have changed considerably. Whenever I have friendships that don't turn out the way I think they will (M for example) I sit back and look at our friendship and think the following sayings are true:

"If you can accept that friends change you don't need to change friends" and

"Some people come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime." and A always tells me some people are your roots, some are the branches and some are the leaves.