Issue Of The Week. Or Day.

(Or whatever.)

Dane and June (and Dune, their rapidly growing child). I'm friends with them, but I really wonder what's gonna happen. See, before, there weren't that many life barriers in between us. Go to college, get a job, get married. Only three. But now, with "have a child" added to that list, there's another. And it's a big one. And I'm afraid that they're at the point in their life that they don't want or need friends. They have each other and their nice little life and they're happy with that. The outside world is just an unneeded extra. And I am at the point in my life where I do want and need friends, and I'd like to include them.

The thing that makes me sad is that June, who goes back to work soon, has said point-blank that she doesn't miss her students. "They miss me, but I don't miss them" was the exact wording, I believe. And I get that. I really do. But given that I am one of Dane's students, it makes me wonder how important I really am. I'm gonna graduate and go to college and go through all the steps in life that he has, and I don't know if we'll still be friends. Like, real friends. Not just "Oh, I know her, so I'll say hi and chuckle for a few minutes and then leave to tend to my life." And I'm so afraid that will happen.