Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Don't you love when a new song comes out? It's just so damn catchy and fun you listen to it over and over and over. It's stuck in your head at the office, you run with it on the treadmill, it keeps you entertained on the subway, it's just a damn good song.

Then the day comes when that song starts to wear a little thin, and you start mixing it up with other things on your ipod. You still like that song, but the lyrics are starting to get a little mundane, yet you can seem to shake that beat.

Then you start to get irritated when your ipod shuffles to that song, or you hear it on the radio. The song you once loved and couldn't get enough of is really starting to get on your nerves because you haven't listened to anything else.....you've gotten past the catch beat and are really starting to think about the lyrics and you start to ask yourself....do these lyrics even make sense?

Can relationships be the same way? Do we often hang out with the same person over and over and over, almost in some sort of hypnotic friendship trance until suddenly we get sick of them? Or do you have that moment one day when you realize that despite the fun things you do and the catchy one liners that sometimes come out of their mouth, that their lyrics actually don't make sense?

Do some friendships have the shelf life of a top forty hit? We all have our classics that never get old but do some people really tire out faster than Britney can hit and fall off of the charts? And is this necessarily a bad thing? I think we put pressure on ourselves to maintain every single friendship in our lives despite whether they still work for us or not, but the truth is, people come and go. People change, some people don't change, people fight, we learn what we can forgive, and we learn that we can't always forget.

So maybe you'll smile when you hear that catchy tune you were once so obsessed with, and realize that it's not your tune after all.