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I don't know how to outgrow people

  • Writer: Carrie Xue
    Carrie Xue
  • 5 days ago
  • 1 min read

I’ve been losing a friend slowly, like watching a sunset. It's beautiful at first, then painful because you know it’s ending. We didn’t fight. We just drifted, which somehow hurts more. I keep replaying memories of us laughing until we cried, sharing secrets that felt like sacred currency.


Now we barely text.


People always talk about romantic heartbreak, but friendship heartbreak is so underrated. No one writes songs about it, but it deserves its own genre.


I don’t hate them. I don’t think they hate me. We just became different people. And I’m learning that outgrowing someone doesn’t make either of us bad, it just makes us human.

 
 
 

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