Drifting Apart

For sometime now, my childhood friends and I have been drifting apart and at this point it feels normal. It makes me upset that it feels normal. We went from being together 24/7 to hardly seeing each other. 

Last year the three of us were pretty close, probably the closest we have been since Kindergarten. Maybe it was because it was the first year that we were all together at the same school again and the fact that we had the same classes & schedules. 

Now this year, our schedules are all over the place, one of us is down in SoCal and we only communicate when it's about a common organization that we are in. 

Funnily enough, this isn't the first time we have drifted apart. In some years of grade school we were all at different schools. We didn't see each other that often but we would make time to hang out and even if we didn't make time we would always find our way back to each other. Like nothing ever happened and we picked up where we left off. 

This time it feels different though, maybe because we got into different friend groups and we have different schedules. Maybe it's seeing the post we all share on social media with our newer friends doing fun things that gives us all FOMO (or maybe it's just me). I think for me its just the fact that we don't make time for each other. 

We have all reached out to each other in different forms such as happy birthdays & happy holidays, and even sending random memes to each other. However it never leads to an actual conversation, it just ends with being left on read, delivered or haha thanks.  

I am glad that the three of us are blossoming in new friendships and learning how to be less codependent on each other. But it still kinda sucks to see how we grew apart. There was no event that made us all be mad at eachother, it's just simply that we got too busy with our academic & personal lives. 

I know that we will always be there for each other even if we aren't hanging out with each other all the time or at all. We have been through so many things, that it's impossible to break that bond we have. 

Drifting away from your friends can be normal, it is a part of life and I know we won't stop being friends, it's just maybe we needed a break from each other. Hopefully spring break & summer can bring us back.