I've sort of reached this point in my life where I don't really dwell on the people who have passed through. I see the times I've spent with others to be brief and usually beautiful moments in the grand scheme of thing that I can look back on fondly, and wonder about what happy circumstances might make us cross paths again in the future. But it also makes me excited to think about what other new, unknown people I might encounter and what sort of impact they'll leave once our time is up.

And that's sort of the beauty of the whole thing. Life is very dynamic like that. You never know how things will turn out. As cheesy and overused as it is, there's some truth in the phrase: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Oops I got my philosophy in a GC thread I'm so sorry. I miss "copy paste DUH" chick because that was comedy gold.