I am fortunate enough to not have lost anyone close to me yet, by death that is. I have become estranged from friends though. We just do not talk as much as we used to and such. It does and does not bother me. For the most part, most of the friends that I grew apart from were never really close friends, I hung out with them in school and such but besides that we did not do much together. Some of them are like "you do not message me as often" or stuff like that (I have most of my friends from High School on MSN) but the thing is, I rarely did message them. I think there is about only one friend I really miss and that is because we grew up together. We were very close and had few things that we did not tell each other. It sucks when you lose someone that close but I guess things like that happen.

I remember being somewhere and watching this comedy thing on someone's computer. In the show there was this serious moment though where they describe friendship. The main character said some friends are like leaves and go away with the seasons thus their lose is normal, then there are a few that are like branches (in other words remains close to you). Then there are those leaves that try to become branches and it is those ones you have to watch for (as in for potential good friends). I think I kinda screwed it up, but still, it was something that stuck with me.