It really is so strange growing apart from a friend. Not because you fought, or hurt each other, but because whatever held you together before simply doesn’t anymore. it’s weird someone can know so much about you, and one day you realize they’re just not a part of your life anymore.
It’s just surreal to me that the first people I called back in high school when my dad died aren’t even in my phone contacts anymore.
There are people who have seen me at my very worst and loved me through it, and people who saw me shine and shared in my happiness, and I haven’t said their names in years.
They probably haven’t said mine.
At first, it’s sad. But eventually, it becomes a happy thing, knowing that wherever I have been, wherever they have been, we have been loved. We loved each other, they have new love in their life now, and so do I.
There was a time when we needed each other, and we had each other. I’ll be grateful for that forever. Who would I have become without them? I’ll love who we were together forever. That feels good. I’m happy to have that.