I have and you will and you also won't. Someone had to point out to me, when I said, "I don't know what's wrong with me" and she replied, "You're inbetween obsessions" that it hit me: I go from obsession to obsession, from "thing" to "thing". I let the "thing" envelope me, and meet people and get different ideas and thoughts about things.* My context for everything changes around that "thing".* One day, I get bored of it, and move on to the next "thing".* I'm still friends with the people I was friends with in the other "thing", just on a different level, no longer "into" what they're into, as I'm into something else. And so, I'm 42.* I still do it.* I always will. I look back to what I was doing in my late 20s.* I was into religious things, having gone whole hog into stuff about monks and deep thinking, and theology and such.* I reread what I wrote then and think, "That's my handwriting, but WHO WROTE THAT!?" Ok, not that dramatically.* Well, sort of. Most of what I wrote I could just as easily write today.* I haven't changed in a deep way. But a lot of it was surrounding the context of the "thing" I was into at the time... and, well, doesn't make any sense any more. The "gist" hasn't change though.* Who I am has and hasn't changed through the years. The friends?* Well, the ones that are wrapped up in the stuff that "changed" for me, they go away.* They're not interested in me anymore.* Those that understand more of the "who I am" stuff?* They're still friends, but we're just into different stuff now.