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i have always known this. that people come and go. but it was only recently that this statement really… struck me. i guess that no matter how much you want people to stay in your life, sometimes it‘s just inevitable. though it was hard at first to let go of ‘your person’, i also realized that relationships are maintained by more than just one person.
so no matter how much you want to keep those people in your life, to save the relationship and connection that you have, at the end of the day, they also have a say in what they feel and what they want. and if what they want is to be out of your life, then the best thing that you could do is to accept and respect that.
it’s the best thing that you could do. not only for them, but also for you.
Dec 31, 2024

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I've learned this lesson a lot specifically in the past couple years. It's also made me realize that everything is temporary, no matter how desperately I want to hold on to something. I try my best to just appreciate the memories of every good thing I've had, and it makes me so glad that I even got to experience this in the first place.
Dec 31, 2024
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This continues to be hard for me to accept. I have a history of carrying 90% of a relationship/friendship to keep it going. I have this false idea that if a relationship is only valid if it doesn't go away. So when something just sort of drifts apart it cheapens it. It's only recently that I've been able to (with the help off my therapist) come to terms with the truth that some acquaintences are just acquaintences. Not everyone needs to be my best friend.
Dec 31, 2024
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foxbuns it’s funny how i see myself in your writing! i was like that too, you know? there was once a moment when i’m not particularly afraid of the concept of “drifting apart”. i have always thought that this would never happen with me and my people, because i am someone who really put my all in keeping my relationships afloat. i always reached out to them when i missed them, when time passed by and i haven’t heard from them for a long time, i would occasionally ask about their life, told them candidly how i miss them. but relationship is a two way street. there will come moments when you finally realized that it was only you that‘s putting in all the effort, trying to make the boat float. and when this realization finally hit, you just can’t help to stop rowing the boat, and trying to fix things. it hurts and tiring. but at least, you know that you’ve done your all in trying to make it work. and when you’ve done your all, but it still isn’t working out the way you want it to be, you just gotta let go and understand that it is them, and not you.
Dec 31, 2024
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icha 100%.
Jan 3, 2025
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relationships naturally change with time, It’s good to remember you always have yourself, and even if some you love has left you’ve lived without them before and you can do it again!
Dec 31, 2024
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wormdeity fr though! 😭 this realization is kind of cruel but also comforting at the same time. sometimes, it’s exactly this that has kept me going for so long.
Jan 1, 2025
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The fourth daily remembrance is: “Everyone I love and all that is dear to me is of the nature to change, I cannot escape being separated from them.” For me, that’s the hardest one to grasp sometimes.
Dec 31, 2024
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It's a crazy thing to think about because when someone enters your life, you're not expecting them to leave. You don't meet someone and start a mental countdown. You think, okay you're here, enjoy the stay and stick around. It's only when they're gone that you realize people staying is RARE, not the other way around.
Dec 31, 2024
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People change people grow apart and that’s ok. As someone with a lack of emotions permanence it’s already hard for me to recognize that people care about me unless I’m reminded 25/8 and while I’ve worked on that and can now remind myself that people care for me; it’s somehow even harder for me to realize when that it’s ok if people are growing apart from me. It’s inevitable. People growing apart from you is not a personal failure sometimes it’s just HAPPENS. Schedules change, distance change, levels of concern change, and that’s ok.
I remember shortly after highschool ended a girl tried to poke fun at me for the fact that i “change” friends often (I have several 6+ year friendships but that’s besides the point LOL) but the truth is that I’ve always known when to let friends go and do their own thing. All of that is to say that life moves forward your circles change and you’re wasting time that you could be using to build stronger/new connections on things that have passed their course.
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it's easier said than done ik but I've had so many friendships fizzle out or stay strong as iron over the years and it rlly comes down to putting in the effort to reach out! like it doesn't have to be a lot but whenever u see something that reminds you of them give them a text or respond to an ig story or smth. plus it's important to know when it's time to let a friendship die, bc u can love a person and also have to admit that your time in eachothers lives have ended. leave with love and lessons learned!!! pay attention to who actively reaches out to you, bc sometimes it will suprise you and end up being rlly fufilling!!! however in the end it all comes down to acknowledging that if the love is good it will grow with you.
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It’s very hard to do, yet, we don’t need friends that lasted for fucking years and yet, still second guess your decisions. We can always make new friends. And most importantly, we can still love people that aren’t in our lives anymore.
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