Talking with friends over lunch about people coming back into my life recently feeling that something isn’t right, not knowing what it is, but that they think it is somehow related to me. One friend felt like they’re going through a learning curve. That sounds like an insult at first, like calling someone juvenile, but of course we’re all constantly learning different things about ourselves and most importantly we’re all on different tracks. Life is not a straight line until the end. To some degree, I feel like I’ve been disrupting these approaches when I start to respond to them, like I should be some kind of third party observer to them, even though it is a two party interaction. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I don’t appear as open from the side of the road as I believe I am. And perhaps I need to remind myself that not everyone is as comfortable and interested in dealing with their own problems as I am.