Switching Roles

I feel like I've reversed roles with someone I know. I was talking to her the other night and she was saying how she rarely goes out with her friends anymore. How she likes staying home. It's funny, because for a long time going out with her friends was the most important thing to her - above anything else, including her family and children. And now that her children are gone, and her priorities have changed, she's kinda sad.

What's really weird is that I feel like I've changed places with her. My friends are extremely important to me. My life revolves around them. I never understood it, I thought my friend's priorities needed to be adjusted. But now I get it. It's not that I am necessarily neglecting other things - I don't have children at home to take care of, or a husband or a home. But I do put my friends above all else.

It's weird how these things kinda seem backwards - this person probably wishes that instead of before, now is the time that she wants to be with friends so much, since there isn't anything at home anymore. And I just wish I had understood it earlier.