some people make an appearance in our lives only to exit too fast, and without good reason. it's not someone i'd miss terribly, someone whose absence i'd reflect back on with regret, or cause me to wonder if i might have handled something differently. i've lived enough to know that i can't please everybody, and in some cases it is my good opinion they have lost, and not the other way around. and yet i still feel i have failed at something, or that someone. what is this need to be on everyone's "good side?"