12.31.23 || People change. This has been a recurring theme in my notebook for the past several months. Sometimes people that you know, and maybe are very close with, head down a different path. That different path might be very good, or very bad, or neither (just plain different). Maybe you (perhaps unconsciously) led them down a different path. Or perhaps their decisions are unrelated to you. It may not be worth thinking about it too carefully. It may not even be worth talking about it. ...