expiry date

We go to the supermarket and buy a loaf of bread, what's the first thing we check for? The expiry date of the bread. A footballer sign a contract for a football club, his contract will have an expiry date to it. You get a cash voucher from Parkson Grand, the first thing is to check for the expiry date of the voucher. Everything seems to have an expiry date to it. Ever wondered if there's an expiry date to the people in life around you???

Sometimes I feel so de-tached from the people around me, collegues, friends, buddies.. does that mean that I've reached my date of expiry with them? Is there an expiry date to friendship?

Ever thought why when we were in school, we were close friends with a certain bunch of people, but when you moved on to college.. the contact is loss and when you meet up in the now and than class reunion, you just can seem to click as usual... or in the first place, if you're close friends than how come you're not close friends now? Is it because you've reach the date of expiry of that friendship?

It's something that bugs me since I've been making the effort to get into contact with all my old friends from school, yes maybe hoping to strike lucky with a life partner in the process but that aside... why am I "re-establishing" contact with this so called close friends of mine from school, if we were close than, why aren't we close now?? Why didn't the contact last when we tried so hard after school, why did we drift a part?? did I reach my date of expiry with that friend

Even recently, I've been feeling a bit detached from certain friends and it bugs me whether am I reaching my date of expiry with this group of friends? The question I ask myself, do I allow a date of expiry to be stamp or can friendship last an eternity. I had a Cell Group leader whom I was very close to 5 years ago, now I see him on the streets he can't even recognise me. What's that suppose to mean? Am I actually going to reach an expiry date with my current group of mates?? But to be honest, I didn't believe in expiry dates for friendship espeacially close friendships, but over the years, the number of close friends, buddies and so called best friends I have lost have made me change that there are an expiry date to friendships.

Even currently, sometimes I feel left out when I go out with people that I thought I'm close to, I just have nothing to say or was it just that I had an emo moment that I had nothing to share at that point of time...?? So which brings me to the question of "what causes the expiry date?".

I'm not sure, my mind is everywhere on this now... it could be caused by actions like you fell in love with your best friend's girl friend or you fall in love with your sex best friend and things get weird between you guys and you split as friends. Or, you decided to become gay one day and your best friends can't except it. Or you do something real bad like commit adultery with your best friend's wife or have a one night stand with your best friend's girl. Or you robbed a bank or murdered someone. Or it could even be something like you just find that the person is different and stupid one day and you decided to expire the friendship. Or something so simple like you have a small misunderstanding and that's the end of the friendship.The most common one we see is one going overseas for studies, work, etc and when he/she comes back, only find that half of his/her friends have expired

Whatever it is, I'm just glad that my friendship with Christ never expires. He's been there and I know He'll always be there for me.