This piece is so beautiful and it captures the reality of most childhood friendships. Just because we feel this way doesn't mean you don’t love them, you’ve just moved on to the next chapter of your life and they aren’t part of it.
I left the group chat this year. I wrote one final note simply stating that I looked forward to keeping in touch individually, and to let me know when they were in NYC (where I live). And that was that, and I'm now in touch with those whom I want to be. We make leaving the group chat a big ordeal, and it was one of the most liberating and honest things I did. Highly recommend.
I love your writing. Also I just want to share to you this one
There are many versions of you in the world now, the one your new friends laugh with, the one your family loves, the one you are in the quiet hours of life. But this is the one I choose to keep. Not because it is truest, but because it is a version of you that lives in my memory, and no one else’s.
This piece is so beautiful and it captures the reality of most childhood friendships. Just because we feel this way doesn't mean you don’t love them, you’ve just moved on to the next chapter of your life and they aren’t part of it.
And that's completely fine too💕
You write so well. I really admire you. Don't ever stop please❤
Thank youu🫶🤍
God , It's so relieving when someone puts into words what your heart feels and cannot articulate. Thank you for this.
You write so well Feifei!
this hits home fr I’ve felt this too
that quiet acceptance that some things don’t have to last forever to matter.
Described so well! You inspired this haiku, using a few of your words:
good friends from the past
we want to want to catch up
relieved, we part ways
I left the group chat this year. I wrote one final note simply stating that I looked forward to keeping in touch individually, and to let me know when they were in NYC (where I live). And that was that, and I'm now in touch with those whom I want to be. We make leaving the group chat a big ordeal, and it was one of the most liberating and honest things I did. Highly recommend.
I love your writing. Also I just want to share to you this one
There are many versions of you in the world now, the one your new friends laugh with, the one your family loves, the one you are in the quiet hours of life. But this is the one I choose to keep. Not because it is truest, but because it is a version of you that lives in my memory, and no one else’s.
- the you i can never meet again
https://substack.com/@odetoapoet/note/p-170851033?r=6t9fbe&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
so in conclusion, no one really knows the best you
I always love the idea of things. Well put.
this is so relatable
this is such crazy timing. beautiful piece, thank you 💞💞
Perhaps everyone cares just not enough to talk about it