On friendship that has run its course
Apr. 9th, 2026 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
posicScott D. Clary writes in Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/posic/posts/pfbid026QdihLdkeREWFtFTNqCS1nEVXRbkzTijpEHYJ9CVyR68oHohjEewVR28Le36UzLRl :
There's a specific feeling when you realize a friendship has run its course. Not that anything happened. Just that you've grown in different directions and the effort required to bridge the gap isn't producing enough to justify it. Most people delay naming that feeling for years.
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The gap is unbridgeable, because it has grown from seeds that were right there from the very beginning. It just became impossible to ignore after some point.
There's a specific feeling when you realize a friendship has run its course. Not that anything happened. Just that you've grown in different directions and the effort required to bridge the gap isn't producing enough to justify it. Most people delay naming that feeling for years.
***
The gap is unbridgeable, because it has grown from seeds that were right there from the very beginning. It just became impossible to ignore after some point.
