At the beginning of this month I lost a friendship with a person I had been friends with since high school. We'd had our ups and downs and the last several years had been a down but a few months ago she wanted to reconcile and I welcomed it. It turned out to be a bad idea, she apparently hasn't mentally matured to her true calendar age like I have tried to do. The whole incident was very hurtful and had me down most of the recent holiday weekend. With this month's challenge prompt of "meaningful friendships" I took the opportunity to use it to journal what the other side of a meaningful friendship is like, the breakdown of it. Very therapeutic to get out the anger of how I was treated and my constant frustrations and anxieties over maintaining the very difficult friendship for 8 short (but felt very long) months.
