Lift higher - rise above!

Someone questioned my recent decision to "clean out my friendship closet..."  was it a wise move?  Looking back over a year later. YES.  Do I miss them ? YES!  And I still think of them often. I do not think of why we stopped being friends rather I try to think only of the good memories that we had before.  Time changes everything.  Experience can change everything. As in relationships like marriage - friends can grow and go in different directions. What I no longer want is a friend has become very clear over time.   I will no longer sit around and gossip about people - judge them for what they have or don't have - I also don't want to sit around and DRINK anymore to be social. Those days for me are done. Sometimes your friends are at a different place.  So you either move on or stay and not be true to yourself or your friend.  I decided to move on. 
All you can do is try to do what is best for yourself. Do what it takes to make yourself a better person sometimes when you grow you've got to go it alone.  I don't  'hate' anyone that I was once friends with - EVERYONE teaches us something and to be friends in the first place we must have had a lot of fun at one point!  BUT when its time to move on - it's time to move on - as with a job, a career, relationship, friendship. 
So yes, I still miss and think of them often,  No- I do not regret moving on. 
It's all a part of life.
I do only try to surround myself now with those that lift me higher - in the heart and mind. That is where it matters most.   xox   <><