Maybe it’s just that we’re all at the centers of our own little universes, and sometimes they overlap with other people’s, and that small bit of intersection leaves some part of it changed.
I recently came across this article and thought it was spot-on, bittersweet, and beautiful. This is one of the reasons I place so much value in photographs– because I place so much stock in the beautiful memories once woven with important individuals. If i ever forget what someone once meant to me, if that ever seems to fade away, I always have photographs to remind me and nudge me toward a catchup-over-coffee.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2014/02/how-the-people-we-once-loved-become-strangers-again/