Growing up means some clothes stop fitting. Some habits and friendships too. That’s not betrayal, that’s size.
CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY
Outgrowing something is not the same as rejecting it. The jacket did nothing wrong, and neither did the friend you have less to say to, and treating every drift as a moral failure keeps people in arrangements that stopped fitting years ago out of pure guilt. A change of size is ordinary. It happens fastest at exactly your age.
Where something has stopped fitting, let it be loose rather than forcing it or burning it down. You can keep the fondness and reduce the hours. If somebody has outgrown you, try to grant them what you would want granted to you.
Which friendship has stopped fitting without either of you doing wrong?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.