You can't go back (to high school) Last night for the first time in approximately eight years I caught up with the people I used to be pretty much best friends with in seventh form. I'll be honest, it was weird and also a little awkward. (As an aside has anyone else noticed how it's awkward to spell "awkward"?) Back in university days some had moved down to Dunedin to study but the majority of us now live in the same city again. Heck, one of them actually lives next door to us now and apart from the day we moved in it's the first time I've seen him in almost a decade. But we've all just kind of grown apart. And to be fair I think I did that a lot sooner than some of the others did. But I think that's okay. There's no use trying to force a friendship that hasn't been a "friendship" for awhile. Sometimes people just come into your life for a season. What matters is how you use that season. It was interesting how much things hadn't changed. People were making the same jokes and trying to relate in the same way. Perhaps that's what I found awkward. You can't relate to someone in the same way you did when you haven't seen them in eight years simply because that relationship isn't there. I think I would have felt a lot better if we'd just tried to relate to each other as though