Changing

It's crazy how every day people around you are changing right before your eyes. Whether it's a physical or mental change, one minute he/she is someone you know, then he/she is suddenly turned into someone else. Makes you wonder where or when time had passed that you didn't realize a caterpillar was changing into a butterfly.

I had a caterpillar friend whom I thought I used to know. I could tell you how many strands of fur he had on his back because I thought I knew him so well. We hung out almost all the time and told each other secrets sworn to be taken to the grave. We could speak to each other without the slightest murmur from our lips and only the use of tactful eye contact. If he started a sentence, then I could finish it and likewise the other way around. We had a perfect relationship right about until the point when we had a big fall out. Then everything changed.

It's funny how you think you know someone only to find out years later that you really don't after all. Just when you thought you could describe every detail on their face and understand every aspect of their personality, you are immediately confronted with something proving otherwise. What you thought you knew so well suddenly seems foreign for some reason.

In the case of my friend, he must have sprouted his colorful wings when I had my back turned because when I saw him again I didn't recognize him. There are times when I would hear faint hints of what I used to know thinking maybe this is the old him I hear, but then I realize it's only my imagination because it's still not the him I used to know. It's not ugly colors he grew into. It's just different colors I'm not used to.

But I guess everything needs room to grow. I'm happy for him.

-Cheers!