Brianna Gomez

Not only is that normal, it is incredibly healthy.

I have friends from my past who we were

so close, incredibly close and nothing bad even happened.

We just grew different ways and there is no bad blood.

I can still see these friends and still say hi to them and have good times and reminisce, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong from choosing to grow and move in our separate directions on both ends for both of us.

And the reason this happens, again, ties back to change and growth and the fact that people grow and mature at different paces.

People have different goals and aspirations for their lives, and it's not always going to be perfectly aligned.

And it's also super important to recognize that different friends are given to you in your life in different seasons and for different reasons.

That was a bar.

There might be someone who comes into your life who teaches you something really important about your love life and then there might be someone who comes in and they teach you something really important about family advice and someone who teaches you something about loving yourself and they all might come at different times and a lot of them are going to come and go and they might not stay forever.

or they might revisit in the future and that is okay.

And so learning how to be like loving towards your friendships and really appreciate the relationships and the lessons that come in and out of your life and ask yourself after each person, like, what did I learn from them?

And really take that and carry that with you.

There are people who I've known who I am not friends with anymore, but I still think of things they told me or things I learned from them.

And I think that's so beautiful.

And so being able to appreciate those friendships, but not hold on to them for dear life, that will make it so much easier.

Just because a friendship is unaligned doesn't mean it's necessarily bad.

That might just mean that the chapter of life you guys are in right now isn't really balancing with each other.

And that's okay.

That doesn't mean you guys have to hate each other and never speak ever again.