Why Friendships Are Harder to Maintain as We Grow
There was a time when friendship felt effortless. You didn’t schedule it. You didn’t overthink it. You didn’t measure who texted first or who cared more. You simply existed in the same spaces—classrooms, neighborhoods, dusty football pitches—and connection happened naturally. Friendship was proximity. You saw each other every day. You laughed at the same things….
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