what's been going on?

hm hm hm amos lee! there are moments when that man's voice just strikes a chord in me... and it seems that in the summer, he speaks the most to me! "what's been going on" something we ask each other all the time.. it's such a simple question, yet can spark so many different reactions and emotions!

over the summer i really feel like these four words can set the stage for amazing conversations and great insight into the people you may have already thought you knew.

as long as i've been in school, and believe me it's been long enough haha, there has always been something i've disliked about summers... and that's not being around all of my friends! you get so used to being able to talk to everyone for 8 hours, 5 days a week. when summer rolls around, that's limited by distance, by vacations, by general lack of communication. but why... why is it that it's so easy for us to just let relationship fall because we aren't in school or at work? we just become dependent on facebook or word of mouth from mutual friends to know of what's been going on in each other's lives.

i miss knowing what's up in my friends' lives... i guess it's a good introduction to life after we graduate. i know there will be people i won't lose touch with; those friends who's weddings i'll attend, i'll be there as we build our families, etc. but the ones i do lose touch with... that, in so many ways, breaks my heart because at one time, those people were once close friends! distance. settling down in different cities. even living in the same city, only minutes away, but living different lives. all of these are just excuses that lend themselves to us losing touch and not truly knowing what's been going on.

i challenge you. i challenge myself. i am at such an early stage in this... yet i can already see how easy it is, can be, maybe even will be to lose touch with amazing people. so do as much as you can to avoid losing touch. if you've lost touch with those friends, make efforts to check back in. all it takes is asking "what's been going on..."