Growing up everyone has a best friend who you hope will be there for you forever, hence the term best friends forever, but that's not usually the case. This phenomenon is actually quite rare. Just think about it, how many changes do we go through in our lives?
We go through so many changes growing up that help shape us into the person we're meant to be. However our friends change too, and sometimes you don't change together. How can one person adapt to their own changes and someone else's? It's nearly impossible. I used to believe that something was "wrong" with me or that I somehow lacked something because I didn't have a best friend that I had been close with forever, but then I DID get a friend like that, two actually, and we were inseparable. BFF's since elementary school and ready to take on the world. Eventually we would grow apart. We all got interested in different things, went to different schools, got boyfriends, etc. For the longest time I didn't understand what had happened and thought it was my fault, wondered what I could do to fix it, and wanted to repair our broken friendship.
People grow apart and that's a lesson that is learned the hard way. I still see their lives on social media, and we're friendly when we see each other but it was really hard to accept that the person I was friends with no longer existed. Friendships are just like any other relationship: they can break up, too.
