late night

I should go out more. Tasty dinner, drinks at a local bar afterward, good conversation - that's my kind of evening (yes, I realize that makes me sound exceptionally boring but, at some point in our lives, we must accept who and what we are. I'm still working on that.) I have this friend and we've been friends since high school. Great guy, great friend (handsome, too), but we don't see each other much. It's always nice when we spend time together, even if we talk about nothing, which is pretty much what we do for hours on end, but I always feel a little lost when we part. Why do we drift away from people who are important to us? What makes people lose each other? Yeah, yeah, I'm talking about more than old high school friends here. This is something I lose sleep over, though. Are humans just a fickle species, craving what we don't have rather than loving what we do? What exactly am I looking for and how exactly do I expect to find it when I don't know what it is in the first place? Such ambiguity makes life a little difficult sometimes.