Have you ever maintained a friendship with a former lover, and then watched them get involved with someone else, onlly to say the exact same things about that someone else that they used to say about you? It's almost as if the "you" you thought you were has been replaced - or maybe never was?

I guess this just points out to me that everything is subjective. The only thing you can be certain about or can control is how you feel about you. Other people might once in a while flatter you or say nice things or discover something wonderful in you, but when they turn away, does that mean you are less wonderful? It can't really mean that.

I guess I'm just blathering here, or probably saying something fundamental that everyone else already understands, but I guess I needed to see it in this facet to get it.