It's so sad to lose touch with people. In many cases it's inevitable, and I've learned to adjust to that. But it really sucks when you're trying hard to keep up with someone else and you realize that they just don't care as much. Or at all. And then you start wondering how long that has been the case, and whether you've just been blind to it...

Part of me wonders if I'll ever get back in touch with the "inevitable" crowd. There were lots of people I knew of at Stanford who seemed like cool people, but they had different interests/friends/schedules and we never got to know each other. Or what about the middle group -- those people who you knew well for a while, and you'd still talk with them for a while if you ran into them on the street -- but otherwise it might seem weird if you contact them....do you ever wonder if those people ask the same thing about you?

A moment of clarity this is not.