chasing mistakes

Today's been the first day in a while that I thought about my old high school friends a lot.

I signed into Facebook for the usual news feed check/snoop around (yeah, yeah, I do that sometimes!) and a picture of a girl named Libby that I had been friends with in high school popped up in the corner. I looked at the picture and realized that I haven't talked to her for probably about 8 years or so, but went to look at her profile just because.

Learned a few things there, one being that (of all days I had to randomly check her profile) she got married today in her hometown! But for the life of me, I can't get over what foolish things caused us to stop talking to each other.

Libby was always friendly to me, but during our sophomore year, she started hanging out with another girl a lot - so much so that I hardly saw her anymore. It bothered me that we didn't talk much, so I figured the best thing to do would be to tell her about it. Looking back on it, when I did finally discuss it with her, I probably didn't phrase it exactly as I should have (although I remember trying to be tactful), and she seemed pretty upset when we finished. After that, we basically didn't talk at all.

I hadn't thought about that too much before now, but it's one of the things I would do over if that were possible. Apparently tact wasn't something I had a lot of as a 15-year-old, but I like to think that I would handle a similar situation very differently now.

Seems like planning out how to discuss things with people was one of the most valuable lessons I learned in high school. Maybe a bit too late, but better late than never.