i miss the old me irl

i’ve been on reddit ever since i can remember. it showed me the beauty in community with people i’ve never actually met. r/me_irl was one of those communities. me_irl was a subreddit where people would just post screenshots of posts from other platforms that where “selfies of the soul”. it ranged from depressing to hopeful, but it consistently was honest. i found home in that subreddit for nearly a decade. but over the past two years, it hasn’t felt the same. the content has started to be content that i didn’t feel like was a selfie of my soul. i kept on feeling like the people in the screenshots weren’t people who i wanted to be, nor where they people i think i am. as the days go on and as i scroll through more posts, im beginning to recognize that the time me_irl has had in my life is ending. but it’s hard to say good bye to it. it’s felt like a consistent friend i could relate to - at least for a few years. but it didn’t grow and mature with me. and that’s okay. it’s hard to let…