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There’s something I’m seeing here if you don’t mind me teasing it out: as you got older you saw acquaintances as replaceable. I think younger people see their f

There’s something I’m seeing here if you don’t mind me teasing it out: as you got older you saw acquaintances as replaceable. I think younger people see their friends as people who will be around for life (and certainly some will) and who can’t be replaced but the reality is that many of them will fade out and be replaced regardless.

bluefirebrand 3y ago
In my particular case it was that in hindsight I don't think I was as close to a lot of those people as I thought I was at the time. When I moved away, many of them didn't even really say goodbye or goodluck or anything like that. I kept in touch with a few of them for a couple of years after I left, visited a couple of times. Then they got married, had kids, and I hear from them much less. My understanding is that many childless people have a similar experience where their friends who marry and have kids move on from them fairly soon after, as their focus moves more onto their kids