Some friendships fade with no fight and no villain. Two people just got curious about different things.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Plenty of friendships end with no fight, no villain and no reason you could point to. Two people got curious about different things, the overlap shrank, and keeping it going stopped being automatic for either of them. The lack of a cause is what makes it feel unfinished, and it was still a real friendship that simply reached its end.
If one is fading, you can reach out once or let it go quietly, and both are honest choices. What you are not obliged to do is find somebody to blame. Keep the good years without needing the ending to make sense.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which friend simply got interested in different things than you?
MORE IN SOLITUDE & SELF-KNOWLEDGE
- You’ll know you’ve grown when you stop needing to win every argument in your head at night.
- Being alone with your mistakes is uncomfortable. Being alone with your mistakes and still being kind to yourself is…
- Take the long way home in silence, no podcast, no playlist. Whatever surfaces in that quiet has been waiting in line.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.