Why is it that friends are the hardest thing to keep when life becomes busy.  It seems that people expect you to stop everything and contact them on a daily basis even when you are too busy to keep track of your own life.  A sign of true friendship is to be able to go away for an unspecified amount of time and come together without missing a hitch.  If you honestly think things are different when you come together as friends because there was a period of time you did not speak or see each other, then the friendship was not that strong to begin with.  I leave this random of thoughts with a favorite quote of mine:

" A true friend will not be holding your hand when you die, they will be holding your soul."