"If you're not losing friends, you're not growing up." This statement is brutal, heartbreaking, and one of the most relatable sentences I have ever read. Everyone loses friends over the years. Maybe it was intentional. Maybe it wasn't and you just lost touch or ran out of things in common. People change and in order for people grow, sometimes you have to let people go. Sometimes friendships are exhausting and you need a break. And sometimes you don't realize a friendship is over until you realize you haven't talked to the person in months. Or maybe the friendship was one sided.
Remember in elementary school when practically everybody in your class was friends? When senior year of high school it felt like your entire graduating class had come together for one last time? I thought after high school, I would keep in contact with so many of the people from my graduating class, but it didn't turn out like that at all. Because we all grew up and moved on with our life. I know many people are still friends with lots of people from high school and that's great. But for those of you who don't keep in contact with everybody who you thought you would, that's a part of moving on. Odds are, you won't be friends with the same people your entire life. It's not easy letting go, but sometimes you have to.
There are no words to describe the pain from ending a friendship, especially when you don't even really end it but the friendship just fades until you stop talking altogether. I feel like that's how a lot of my friendships have ended unintentionally. We went in different directions and didn't realize it until it was too late. I think the worst part about friendships ending is the end of talking to someone who knows your life and has been through so many important events with you. When something big has happened in your life and you're about to text someone, but then realize that you can't because it would be too weird.
Even though we don't talk anymore, I'll always be here for you because we've been through so much together to be on bad terms. I wish the best for you and I'm optimistic about the future. Who knows, maybe our paths will cross again.
