by ♥ mizu » Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:28 am
ok this isn't really a vent vent because i'm not sad. but i wanted to air this out a bit.
i hear so many people speaking of heartbreak, losing a lover, just that kind of thing. although i've never experienced that, i cannot emphasize how deeply traumatizing it was for me to lose my friend group of 8 years. it wasn't even sudden. i knew for the entire time that eventually we would have to go our separate ways. i remember being 9 years old and crying about it before i went to bed. i literally counted down the years until we had to leave each other, but i hoped that maybe we'd go on the same path so it wouldn't have to end.
but those last final years were so so horrible for me. i'm not exaggerating. i cried every single night, sometimes for hours, because i couldn't fathom leaving them. it was awful. it was this terrible internal feeling of loss and grief. it felt like somebody was dying, even though i have never even mourned for somebody that hard. i was grieving the loss of friends who were still alive. but we had to go, and we did. and i was the only one crying - i don't know how or why they didn't, because i was destroyed. my first year without them, i couldn't stop thinking about how they were doing. i reached out to them and they were dry. it was awful. i thought that we were life long friends. i really thought that we were.
but i still think about them every single day. i don't cry anymore. i really just don't cry about much. i still dream about them very frequently, which is so odd. their presence is comforting, even though i know that they aren't the same people they used to be. i follow them on instagram. their posts are still funny, but i know that if i engaged with them they would leave me on seen. they don't like me, which is fine, but it hurts.
i have new friends now. at least now i know that they genuinely, platonically, love me, because they have expressed it verbally and with their actions. it's weird, though, because this friend group is similar to my old one. i haven't replaced those old friends, i don't think - i've just changed them. i still love my old friends and i think that i always will. if they wanted to be friends, i'd hang out with them.
it's just so terribly sad to me that i cried all of those nights and nobody even knew. my parents didn't know. when i say cry i mean i was silently throwing my head back and wailing. tears, snot, everything - it was so gross. my head would ache for hours. sometimes i would wake up in the middle of the night because my jaw hurt so freaking bad from clenching it. i was dealing with so much other internal stuff too but that was absolutely the lowest point of my life. little me really had no one but herself.
like i know this sounds so edgy and cringe but i wanted to say it. i don't know. i wanted to get it out. hopefully this doesn't end up in a tiktok edgelord slideshow.