When Friendship Is One-Sided: Letting Go of Someone Who Was Never Really There “Finally, I realized that I was never asking too much. I was just asking the wrong person.” ~Unknown Friendship should nourish the soul. And in my life, for the most part, it has. I have a small, longstanding circle of friends steeped in a long-shared history. We’re basically a real-life, thirty-five-year-long John Hughes film. However, every now and then, a hornet in disguise has buzzed into my life and stung. He was one of them. A bad…
Day: October 28, 2025
Full Circle: Reclaiming the Me Who Felt Most Alive
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~T.S. Eliot In my early twenties, I packed a backpack and boarded a plane alone with a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia. It was a move that baffled my father, inspired my friends, and quietly terrified me. I was drawn by something I couldn’t fully articulate at the time: a craving for freedom, truth, and a kind of belonging I hadn’t yet…
