My best friend from college and I have been drifting apart for the past year and we both know it but we keep having these surface-level catch-ups where we pretend everything is fine. We used to tell each other everything and now there's this careful distance and I don't know if we're protecting each other or just avoiding the conversation about how we've both changed.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who once shared deep intimacy are now performing connection rather than living it, and both are complicit in the pretense.
“Where Are You with Legacy and ego — when legacy-building becomes narcissism?”
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