Red Light

I lost a friend. At the end of our friendship, he told me he wished he would have tried harder, but that it was too late now. I thought that was ridiculous. It's never too late, I thought to myself. Why didn't you just try harder at the time and you wouldn't have to sit here telling me you regret it now? It was silly, and a poor excuse to let someone go by.

I lost another friend recently. At the end of the slighlty more complicated friendship, I thought to myself, I should have tried harder. But it's too late now. So now, I understand exactly what my other friend was talking about. He wasn't being silly - I was. I get it now; a point of no return was reached in both relationships. Like when your in an intersection and the light turns yellow but you're going to fast and you've gone too far to stop...