Silent goodbyes
Hi fellow aunties and uncles, welcome to this week’s conversation. Today we’re talking about something we don’t say out loud enough, which is friendships that don’t really end, but somehow still leave. Let’s call this one “friends that don’t stay.” Pour your evening tea. This is a soft conversation, but an honest one. So the other day, I bumped into someone I used to call my person. You know that kind of friend. The one who knew your moods before you even said a word, the one you’d call first with both good news and bad decisions. We hugged, we smiled, we said all the right things “we should meet,” “we’ve been so busy,” “life, hey?” But somewhere in that conversation, I felt it. We were no longer in sync. Nobody fought, nobody did anything wrong, life just happened differently for both of us. She’s probably in her own different routines now, with new daily schedules and responsibilities, and work that fills her days. I on the other hand also have a different routine, diffe...