
Always One Step Ahead Of Being Known
Sometimes the people who have known us the longest are holding on to a version of us that no longer exists. The loneliness isn't that they don't care, it's that they haven't caught up with who we are now.
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Sometimes the people who have known us the longest are holding on to a version of us that no longer exists. The loneliness isn't that they don't care, it's that they haven't caught up with who we are now.

Sometimes we lose the very thing we wanted because we were too busy testing whether it was real.

They felt everything. They said nothing. And somewhere between six months of stolen glances and a single unanswered text, something real was quietly lost.