Ghost

Isn't it insane, that we can recycle people in our lives?
I mean think about it.
We can replace them, re-use them, use the remnants of them to benefit our lives?

I always thought that concept was so incredible.
Treating a person like....cardboard.

If I think of my life a year ago, I had completely different friends, love life, and I didn't even associate with the things I do now.

Is that a part of growing up or is it just our mentality?

People I used to text, call, every single day, are now complete strangers I check up with on Facebook once a year.

People I used to open my entire life to, see every hour of the day, plan to spend forever with, have disappeared as if our story had never happened.

As if our lives are one long book and that chapter has been backspaced out of existence.

People don't understand why adolescence and young adulthood is so hard but what they don't keep in mind is we're always recycling.

Changing friends, lovers, minds.

We're not at the phase of life yet where we can even envision hold onto something forever. Where we can exchange vows, find stability in groups, know who and what we are. Where someone disappearing IS out of the ordinary.

This is the period where we are just replacing, re-using and taking bits and pieces of our mistakes to help make our lives less troublesome.

That was a weird metaphor.