
Saved by Alex Wittenberg and
It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
Saved by Alex Wittenberg and
... See more“What the moment brings: that forward-facing dimension of friendship, the knowledge that you will grow old, or apart, and that you may one day need each other in some presently unimaginable way. We learn as children that friendship is casual and transient. As a structure, it’s rife with imbalance, invisible tiers, pettiness, and insecurity, stretch
I didn’t return texts and I didn’t confirm plans. I forgot about birthdays and I stopped returning calls. I didn’t know how to show up for them: the Nora they had known before was gone, and I didn’t like this version of me enough to show her to anyone who had known and loved those better versions. I assumed that their lives were perfectly fine with
... See moreI’M EATING DINNER AT MY apartment when my phone rings. It’s Miranda. Typically I wouldn’t expect a call from her these days. We’ve drifted apart. It’s a sad reality for me in my late twenties. At the beginning of the decade, the people I was close to seemed like friends for life, people I could never imagine not seeing every day. But life happens.
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