My son has basically ended a friendship

[pipoman]

4. When one is a kid

time travels slowly...I liken it to dog years. Kids during that time change dramatically and search for their identity. It is a lesson in life. For most people, they develop friends throughout their life, depend on them and develop deep relationships. Then life changes, disagreements come up, etc., the contact with the person diminishes, and we go our own way. These relationships develop a large group of people, the older we get, who would likely help if needed, but are just living their lives with the people who they are surrounded by. Most acquaintances don't result in lifelong friendships.."two ships which pass in the night", and all that..When it is all done, we have a few people who we love and love us back almost unconditionally, a few more who we keep in contact with periodically and pick up right where we left off, a lot more who we care about but really don't keep in contact with and would do most anything which isn't too intrusive, and many, many more who we would exchange niceties with and continue on..it gets easier to understand and deal with the older we get..Parents often try to control these natural changes out of a sense of nostalgia, especially with their first kids..