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INTROSPECTION| SELF-AWARENESS
The Truth About Fading Connections
Coming in terms with reality.
Have you ever had a friend or someone you cared about just… stop talking to you? Not after a big fight, but slowly, little by little? Like they just faded away without saying goodbye? It feels like a quiet kind of sad, doesn’t it?
I live in Bengaluru, a busy city, and sometimes it feels like people fade away here too, like a whisper in the noise. As a writer, I try to put feelings into words, but this feeling of being left without a proper goodbye is tricky. It’s like a bruise you can’t see. Someone just stops replying to messages or keeps saying “maybe later” to plans, until “later” never comes.
It’s not the yelling or the doors slamming that hurts the most. It’s the slow quiet when someone stops trying to be in your life. At first, you tell yourself they’re just busy. You make up reasons for their silence. You hope they’ll try again. It’s like you’re trying to build a bridge by yourself, but they’re not helping from the other side.
I’ve learned that you can’t make someone stay if they don’t want to.
No matter how kind you are, or how much you reach out, a friendship or any connection needs two people to work. They need to want to pick up the phone too.
