Hold onto the friends who knew you before the glow up. They were there for the rough draft.

People who knew you earlier hold a version of you that cannot be reconstructed later. They remember the awkward phase, the bad ideas, the person you were before you had any of this figured out, and because of that they are almost impossible to perform for. That is inconvenient occasionally and extremely valuable over a long time.

Keep those friendships in repair even when they take effort and even when your lives have stopped overlapping. Call rather than only reacting to what they post. Being known from the beginning is not something you can start building now.