Growing Apart — in short

One day, you learn that life is just going to have a lot of inevitable turns. Then, it’ll take another day for you to accept that reality. Yet, another day comes when you realize that, after all, you’re as unprepared as you were before any of those turns happened, to anchor yourself.

To expect, to anticipate such changes — which, if one is lucky, may not happen at all — is not the same as walking by them, through them despite the warning. Feeling the shift with every conversation, with every heartbeat, every memory…quietly fading away.

You might not always notice when you’re growing apart from someone, but when you do, you’ll know this: it’s a hard pill to swallow. Sometimes, awkward, but mostly pitiful. It’s like watching the little bristles on a dandelion slowly float up in the air after an effortless puff of breath…until nothing is left of it.

I think it’s one of life’s hardest blows – when you care for someone – to watch that relationship turn to dust.

But don’t count on it being a permanent puff, though. Life is weird, remember? It could be even more beautiful than it was if you reconnect. What if you don’t? it’s a coin toss. Move along.

Life is not for the faint of heart. Ironically, nothing is as fragile as the human heart itself. Luckily for us, it is just as resilient. Maybe that’s the reason that we manage to survive one of the most gut-wrenching experiences of life.