A quick, funny aside; Melissa is a person who has played such an important role in my life and yet she is one of those people from my past that I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably never see her in person again. Is that sad? There are a lot of those people, mostly from high school. But to never see the first person you loved, the person who significantly shaped who and how you are, and to accept that life is simply like that, is that sad?