It changes..but really stays the same.

It amazes me how much things stay the same. You don't talk to or hear of people in a long time and when you meet them again...it's the same. The same ppl that were annoying, stupid, vicious, retarded, lazy, bitchy...they are the same. I mean I think I've changed since high school. Not that I was a bad person...some of my actions were bad. Maybe it's not so much that I have changed but my actions have. I like to think I've gained wisdom or at least new perspective through the years but I'm probably much the same. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the same people that I thought were interesting (one of the highest awards in my book), cool, sweet, funny...they still are too. Luckily time has left them as they are as well. And there are the occasional surprises..someone you didn't know well because they got overlooked or you didn't rotate in the same circles..it was always harder to 'border cross' then than it is now..well, those ppl can be a surprise. You can mourn the time you didn't take to know them better because it might have been worth your while. I also mourn the time I spent trying to delve into someone when it looked like there might be more and I hit shallow water all the way around. Sometimes you see what you want because you love the person ...instead of what's there.