Is insane. I just looked through 2005, 2006 and 2007 and I can hardly breathe. It is… absolutely staggering, how different my life was, and in a few ways how similar it was. First of all, it’s delightful to see comments from the people you’re still close with. You can go back and view the depth of your current friendships anytime you want, it’s really charming. You can also look back and see comments from a few people who were outliers at the time, but years later would become a part of your inner circle. It’s littered with tons of those “If I could go back to 2007 and tell myself that THIS is what life would be like right now…” types of moments.

It’s also littered with friendships that have either changed, or worse, disappeared completely. There are certain people I was friends with who I had actually completely forgotten I was ever friends with. Also, there are comments from people I knew I was close with, but I had totally forgotten the depth of that closeness until I saw that they used to comment on my wall almost every day. It’s triggering all sorts of little memories that I thought I had forgotten.

At the same time, I appreciate the brief stays that certain people have had throughout my adult life. I like knowing their time with me is stuck somewhere, and that they possess a chunk of my past, and I can look back to my time with them and know exactly what kind of person I was at the time and the types of things I would’ve said. But more so, it makes me appreciate the hell out of everyone I was close with then, and everyone I’m still close with now.