my "best friend"

So it's probably been about a month since I talked to one of my friends. She lives a few hours away from me but that has never been an issue in our friendship. Lately we have just been distant.

A little background on our friendship. We met way back in 2001 at a church convention. I was freshly saved and although I had stopped doing a lot of the things that I used to do, I still loved meeting girls and trying to hook up (this just means date, doesn't necessarily imply anything sexual) just for fun. Well I happened to meet this group of girls from another town and one of them really caught my eye. I remember she had a dark complexion and long black hair. Well anyway, my whole philosophy on getting to girls with groups of friends was pick one of her friends, get her friend to realize what a catch I am and then get her to hook it up with her friend so that it doesn't automatically look like I'm solely after her. ah young lust, lol

Well anyway, that friend of hers ended up being my current best friend. She was cool, easy to talk to and loud. I wasn't attracted to her but my plan of hooking up with her friend fell apart after the three days of convention.

Well anyway, a year later I meet up with a girl and we were working together with a security team. She ends up telling me that she knows my friend and that she would tell her to say hi. Well that's how I got back into connection with my best friend. As I got to know her, I realized she was a really cool girl, an awesome Christian and a great friend. Well overtime what happens is that I developed a small crush on her (she was the only Christian girl i knew at the time, lol). This however ended when She forgot my birthday and to me at the time, this was a very tragic and unforgivable issue. lol. Either way I continued to be friends with her although it was awkward for a while. At one point we actually had to clarify that we were not interested in each other in order to keep the friendship going.

Well anyways, after all of that awkwardness, we ended up becoming the best of friends. She was the one person that I can say anything to. We remained great friends for a long time. At one point we got in a huge fight that lasted a few months (enter another one of my best friends, Monique, who totally finished off ant trust that I could possibly have in friends, lol). We ended up getting over it and being best friends again.

Recently we ended up meeting up in Monterey and hanging out. The interesting thing about her is that at times she acts normal but at other times she is very distant. Well during this visit she was extremely distant. I decided not to worry about it and just had fun on this mini vacation. After that vacation she called me a couple of times and one time we actually spoke briefly. But we did in fact end up losing contact with her. I text her a couple of times and she has yet to respond. At one point we got into a little tiff over our political views (she is a republican). Nonetheless, my observation is this, although she has been a great friend all of these years, we have grown apart. I am not sure what to do at this point, whether I should ask her about it or just leave things as they are. Over the years I have grown used to just losing friends to random arguments and fights so I’m not sure if I should just let her go without any negative feelings or confront her about this and continue our friendship. Well anyway, I guess I’ll keep you folks updated. Take care!