To clarify my ramblings....

I think the point I was trying make below stemmed from having gone for a {cough} few drinks last night with, while not a friend I see often (although being halfway around the world might have an effect on that), someone that I am still pretty close to.

You know those conversations where you could have seen the person two days ago, or two years ago?

Yeah.

I'm not going to say that we haven't had our share of ups and downs (for the sake of clarity, we dated for two years in high school... as with all "serious"* high school relationships, it ended badly), but having known someone really well from that young an age, you kinda know them before they became who they grew up to be. I can't possibly think of something that she could tell me that would change my opinion of her... and I think I've managed to test that theory from my side, and it seems to hold.

I guess it's another one of my little "rebalancing" moments, where I get to remind myself about the important things in life, at least to me.

* - I used quotes here, as really... in high school? it's all bullshit... "serious" is a realtive term, but still... it was two years... hard to describe it otherwise....