Ebb and Flow

I'm taken with how life changes even while it stays the same. Like the ever changing, always constant river.
This morning I'm thinking the ebb and flow of relationships. New friends that I'm excited about. Old friends who are moving away. I think I'm getting better at going with the flow. Accepting the reality of periodic loss and making the internal adjustments necessary to thrive going forward.
I think for a season there, I believed the alternatives were connection or isolation. But, the facts seem to evidence a coming and going of various sorts of connections. Some merely social brushes past each other. Some task-based collaborations. A few more intimate friendships. Some where we share only words. Some where we share only work. Some where we share life.
And this variety is good. I need neither to keep everyone at arm's length nor become everyone's best friend. Ebb and flow. Ever changing. Always the same.