Bridges...

It was weird to turn around and see the bridges I built and the ones that I've burned. Were those fallen bridges all my doing, or could it have been the one on the other side? What had I done to make them do so? It takes so long to build and perfect a relationship but so quickly it is burned and hard to ever restore.  Forgiveness is an incredible thing and can most definitely clear away those scars, but other times what is done and said will leave a mark that can never be fixed...forgiven or not.
There's people who've changed my life but now we never talk, and then those with the opposite situation;  we met long ago but never were friends and now I don't know what I would do without them. It's weird to see how things change over long periods of time or others, how in less than a week, I feel our whole relationship is flipped upside down. I'm thankful for those people who have reached out to me and called me their friend, who aren't afraid to invite me right in. And then there's the relationships that are growing real slow, nonetheless they are growing, and I hope they continue to grow.
But I can't look back long, so I'll keep moving forward 'cause people change, friends leave, and life doesn't stop for anybody.