One misunderstanding leads to another and it seems like every day I'm realizing that true friends are more rare than I had ever imagined. I'm also realizing I'm not as great of a friend as I'd like to be. Sometimes I wonder if there is really anyone that will be a true friend forever.  I'm guilty of a lot, but so are a lot of other people.

Every day I'm learning something new about people, about life, love, happiness, truth, beauty, ugliness, hatred, and jealousy. Life is not about the destination, it's about the journey and we need to pay attention to the little things in life because one day we'll wake up and realize that those little things are what made the big things and those big things are what made us who we are every day -- ever evolving, ever learning, and ever understanding our surroundings.

Life is not about finding yourself, or becoming who we are meant to be. We ARE who we are meant to be right here and now. And tomorrow, maybe we'll experience something new and that will change us forever, teach us a lesson that will stick with us until our dying day. But we can only know this if we realize that instead of focusing so much on the future we need to live for the present. What else matters but here and now? What else is certain?

I firmly believe that we are put on this world to influence one another. We've all been influenced by people, be they close friends, co-workers, classmates, family members, celebrities, or even complete strangers that we see on the street.

Without other people we'd be nothing. So why do we tend to push people away? Why do we tend to do bad things to the people we care about?

PS...for anyone that hasn't left. I'm back =)

for now.