Some friendships are for a season. Holding on in winter to a summer friend just makes you both cold.

Some closeness is built by circumstance, and it is not fake for being built that way. The bus route, the same shift, one summer: take the circumstance away and the thing it was holding up comes down, and that is not a betrayal by either of you. Trying to keep a summer arrangement running in January mostly produces two people feeling guilty.

Let it be what it was without downgrading the memory of it. Say hello properly when you see them, mean it, and stop measuring the friendship by how often you talk now. Some people are seasons and the season still counted.