On old friends

Friends were never a very important thing for me, I only ever had one or two friends around me at any one time, so I didn't crave the acceptance of a crowd but, I did enjoy being near someone and laughing about stupid stuff and hanging out. And my friendships were usually very steady, I'd go years with just one main friend, and we'd hang out often. Maybe four times a week, it was nice, we'd usually hang out, watch some old anime show from the 90s (gasp, I know embarrassing but I was an angsty teenager) and eat some food. It was nice, but my friend(s) slowly decided that it was time to move on and we simply drifted away from each other with age and going to college, etc. and that is sort of painful to think about. That life makes people drift apart, but it's just the fact of life. My friends are no longer my friends, but it's not because we turned sour on each other. But because we left each other's lives quietly. Which is one of the key takes of life itself. That not everyone will…