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I’ve been thinking about this post I wrote a few weeks back about how adult friendships slowly get redefined, how intimacy becomes transactional, how the “real work” is to build softer, ongoing connections again. Some of it still holds. But some of it, I have some some more thoughts about. That line - “adult relationships don’t erode from disinterest, they get redefined” was too neat. Sometimes, relationships just end. People change. I’ve changed. Not everything needs a poetic explanation. I also don’t think I’m actually doing “the real work” of rebuilding closeness right now. What I am doing is noticing more. Meeting myself more often. Letting interactions be what they are even if they just add to the list of acquaintances. That, for now, feels like enough. The first post came from a place of yearning. This note comes from a place of acceptance.
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