And if we're paying attention, we recognize the transition, just like with friendships. When it's time to move on, you may not call each other as much as you used to. Maybe you used to talk every day for a couple of years, and then suddenly it's a few times a week.
SourceAnd then suddenly it's a couple of times a month and you aren't going out to dinner like you used to. And if people aren't paying attention and recognizing that with the idea that there's a reason and a season, they start wondering, what did I do? Are they mad with me? Are they upset? Did I do something wrong? Instead of just saying, hey, you know what? It's time. I didn't do anything.
So this is just a season that's transitioning. And eventually when you haven't spoken for 10 years, like Heather said, you understand and you can accept the fact that, hey, how are you doing? I'm glad you're doing well. You know, life for me has been busy, this and that.
And but it's great to catch up with you. And you're OK with it being another five or 10 years because that season has passed. And now it's on to something else that you need to be doing.
So great point with that, Heather. And I think everyone needs to really have that in mind, because I've seen too many people beating themselves up, thinking that they've done something wrong when it was time for friendship to transition into a new season where this person was not going to be in your life the way that they once were. And do not in those rooms that Heather was talking about.
When people and you have to be aware of this in your relationships, sometimes people don't want to see you grow. When you're in the same place and you begin to do things differently and they see you evolve, they see you expand, they see you excelling. Some people get upset about that.