Text messages become shorter and less frequent.

Making plans to see each other becomes a challenge.

Moments together seem to fade.

Communication comes to a halt for months at a time, until someone is reminded of the other and feels like they need to send a how have you been text.

Reading this, most of us will have a friend that comes to mind. A friend who we are no longer as close with as we once were. You're basically strangers now. You see them on your social media feed, and just for a second, you let yourself miss them.

Looking back on all of the memories you've made with that person is bitter sweet. You love the memories and all of the things you guys did together, but no one else gets it. You can't look at another friend and try to reminisce about the past because they don't get it. No one does, except that one person.

You carry those times with you, and you tell yourself you will make amends with them and be close again, but you never do. You desperately hope that they want to be friends again too and wait for them to try. Sometimes you do try, but the effort just isn't there.

You think it'll be easy to pick up where the friendship left off. All of the old jokes will still be funny, but they never are. Everything seems so forced, like you're trying too hard. You want to be close friends again, but your lives have changed.

Relationships change, friends change, schools change, and all the while years and events have passed that you can't explain to the other person. You try, and try your best, but sometimes people change too much and there is no longer that compatible spirit.

When friends drift apart you lose a part of your past, your history. It's never any fun, and if you lose a lot of friends it never gets easier.

In the end though, you have to accept that you had your time with that person, and it's ok that you drifted off in to your own people.