Paradigm shift.

So wow. I'm just blown away. I don't know if I have the words to adequately describe everything that I'm thinking right now. I guess it is always best to start at the beginning, because it is a very good place to start.

A long time ago, maybe 20ish (wow I'm getting old) my family moved to a little town in Idaho from an even smaller town in Idaho. We moved into a little house down on Brent street ready to start our new lives. For you see, my dad had accepted a new job and needed to move us all instead of taking a needless 2 hour commute. My young self found the move very exciting and was rather quick to make new friends with the neighbor kids. Almost instantly I became good friends with one kid that lived maybe three houses down.

In now time we were best friends. We were always playing at each others houses and sharing almost everything little kids shared. Maybe it was because we were both the youngest in our families had something to do with it. Soon school started, and amazingly we were in the same class. So obviously our friendship continued. Our friendship even continued when he moved across town. It helped that the town was small enough that we were still going to the same school. He moved to a much bigger house that was a lot of fun to play in. Not long after we moved to a better home, somewhat closer to his. He was my first and best friend in this town.

It was about this time that our friendship started to take a turn. He did something that ended things. In retrospect it wasn't the worst thing someone could do, but I'll just say that it was something to lose trust and so our friendship dissolved.

Years flew by. I made other friends in grade school. Some that are still my friends today. After sixth grade I moved away, but kept coming back time and again to spend time with those other friends. My other friends became friends of this kid in Jr. and High school, and there were times when all of us spent time together. Granted it wasn't too often. But having mutual friends meant that we would have to see each other some time. I was always at least civil at these times, but we never really talked much.

I remember that it was sometime in High School that I really forgave this friend for what he did. Now I never told him that, or did I ever try to become friends with him again. I just sort of went my own way.

Now this is what really blows me away. This friend has recently sent me a 'friends request' through facebook. A few days ago I saw this and didn't do anything about it, but now I found a message attached to the request. This friend feels bad about what he did, and he is now apologizing for it. And now wants to be friends again, and catch up on our lives. WOW. That just blew me away. I don't quite know what to think. I never thought in a thousand years that we would ever be friends again. Never expected him to come to me in this way. I never knew he still thought about that incident. I'm still shocked and not sure what to do.

I'm sure I'll accept the request, but wow 15 years of catching up...that could take some time. Still, wow.