When the friend group falls apart, the quiet that follows is where you finally hear your own voice.

A group shapes your preferences quietly, and you rarely notice how much until it stops. Tastes, opinions, the way you spend a Saturday, all of it gets tuned to the room. When the room empties, the silence is disorienting, and it is also the first clear signal you have had in a long while.

Rather than rushing to fill it, use a few weeks of it. Notice what you do when nobody is watching, and what you actually miss about the people, which will not be all of them equally. Loneliness in this stretch is real, and nothing is wrong with you.