Friendships
The particular loneliness of being loved as a draft that no longer exists.
Trey Robinson
Friendship with a misunderstood mind is often a study in timing. People arrive for the charming version. They leave when the maintenance becomes visible.
I do not say that as indictment only. I say it as weather. Some bonds cannot survive a revision of the story they were built on.
The friendships that lasted were not the ones that never saw the mess. They were the ones that did not require me to disappear in order to stay lovable.
That is a smaller list than the culture pretends. It is also a truer one.