I'll See You Guys In Topeka, Okay?

I am fascinated by evolution. Social evolution. The cycle a friendship takes over time. How one starts, grows, maintains and usually whithers away. It's the whithering away part that really gets me. I fear few things worse than the whithering away. My closest friends, on a daily basis, I haven't had longer than three years. I have friends too, that I've had much longer. But they are so different on the evolutionary scale. I want to stay in one place. I want to maintain. But change comes at me like a marauding wildebeest.