I have this friend that I've known since middle school and we were incredibly close until college happened and we started drifting apart. Of course you're all thinking "Duh, no one talks to middle school friends anymore" but I tend to hold on to people worth holding on to and most of my closer friends are from that time mostly because I don't know why anyone would have wanted to be my friend then, yet they were, so I'm biased... though I guess most people typically don't like previous versions of themselves... then again I haven't figured out if I like the current version of myself either...
Anyway, I'm not sure if it's because she started hanging around a scandalous alcohol princess or if it's because she started dating this...... sigh, as long as she's happy... or if it's because she was at a cc when the rest of us left to universities, but the drifting has progressed to a point of no return--Pangaea status. I've really been trying to figure out what happened and if there was one decisive moment that drove the Titanic into the iceberg, but I can't pinpoint the origin of destruction. I don't really think we can go back to how we were because we've become different people. It's not that I don't like her or don't care because I really do and I wish that we could be as close as we used to be, but realistically it's not going to happen. I've tried, though admittedly half-hearted, but I don't feel compelled to be around her because when we hang out it feels like a sad interrogation. There's nothing to talk about. It's almost uncomfortable. I'm tired of feeling like I
need to struggle to sustain/revive our friendship. As I always say, there's no point in interacting with anyone unless you're happier than when you're alone. Doctors can only give CPR for so long... It's time to call it. Time of death, 7:02pm 02/21/2014.
I think that the fundamental problem is her fixation on the person I was in the past and inability to adapt to the person that I've become. It makes me sad to know that if I met her now we probably wouldn't be friends. Our friendship has been dying a slow death these past five years, so this is my acknowledgement of that death/goodbye post to my friend that doesn't even use social media. Thank you for laughing so hard when my pants fell off when we were scooter-ing, drinking unhealthy amounts of energy drinks with me, and saving my arse so many times/always being there for me back in the day.