See me now, see me later?

I'm so curious about thinking in terms of people seeing each other as long time friends. I have many friends that I have known  for many, many, years, I mean years. Often, we come together for God only knows why as friends. We meet in different places to visit and talk about all the things that have effected out lives.
So what happens when that friendship suddenly changes? What really goes on with our minds and hearts when that one special person is no longer a part of your life? Can you really make changes that bring you back to that place of oneness?
There's no way that I can tell other people what happen to many of my closest friends now that they are no longer a daily concern for me. How did that happen? When did that special friendship all of a sudden disappear? Was it just slowly or did I not even take notice?
As I have grown older I try to stop long enough in my busy chaotic life to weigh that loss. There are several friendships that I placed a high level of love and concern on, yet they are not the same for me now. My question is why? What happen?
We can never know the changes that will come our way. There is no way to predict tomorrow, so having said that I must realize that whether I understand it or not things change.
People become so busy with their jobs, family or outside activities that sometimes that one special friend that you have takes last place in our daily lives.
For me, I hope that now that I have a few moments to breath, or so I hope to, that maybe I can find a way to reconnect to those friends lost to me. I have still have many close friends, but the thought that I may never see or speak to that someone special again just leaves me a bit hollow.
Often times I say to people that what I want most from family and friends is to see me now for perhaps later you want get to see me at all. If something where to suddenly happen to me I don't ever want any one that I loved to have that awful feeling of I should have called her, but now I can't.
WE should take it upon ourselves to stop long enough to connect to those that mean the most to us. After all will they be able to see you later?
If not today, then when?
Go in peace and reconnect, today just might be the day that your friend from the past is now once again in your present, and that's a blessing in itself.