I got into a fight with a friend and was faced with the idea of never being friends with them anymore, let alone close friends. We’ll fight on occasion and go without talking to each other for a while, but this time was different. Rather than feel sorry and beg for forgiveness like I think they wanted me to, the idea of not talking to them again made me feel pretty free and liberated. So now I feel a little bit guilty and part of me is hoping that we continue to not talk to each other because I don’t know that I really want to invest the energy to make up and become friends again if/when that point comes.

I mean, they were pretty awful to me but not so awful that I’d never speak to them again. But I know that they’ll probably want to be closer friends again if we do talk to one another.