#outgrew

[oreocheesecakestan]

It’s sad when you outgrow your clothes sometimes 😩

[jaykorianddickkoriforlife]

A Dying Friendship

Do you know what’s really sad? 

Realizing that you have to end a friendship with your best friend for their own happiness, and for your own. Looking in their eyes as they ramble while feeling like something has settled inside of you. Smiling even as realization hits that it’s time to part ways.

This isn’t over a big fight, or a romantic reason, it’s the affection you have for them pushing you to make a decision so that both of you could live in peace. 

It’s the feeling of acceptance with a taste of sadness because this has been your person, for so long, and now you have to slowly push them away. You have to manipulate the situation little by little to make them believe that it was just life that got in the way. That it’s what always tends to happen with people that have known each other for years, since teenagers, that “life just happened, and you lost contact.”.

Because the sad thing is that you’ve outgrown them. That you’re ready to let them go, not only for your own health because it sucks to look back, and realize you’ve always given more to the friendship than they have. That you were more of a mother than a friend. That all the plans you’ve made together will fade away in the air, and now you’ll have to do it alone. It’s better to end it quietly then let it end in disaster. The good thing is when you know you’ll leave them in good hands, that they have good friends to keep them safe, to listen to them, that they have other best friends. Being more of a mother makes you realize that it’s going to be hard on them, that you’ve been guiding them for so long that now they’re going to have to face it all alone. That you won’t be there to see them accomplish all their dreams, to see them outgrow their insecurities. 

It’s different to know that letting them go will essentially leave you alone because unlike them, you don’t have a group of friends, they’ve been your one true friend, yet it’s also freeing because now you know you’re ready to create another path where you’ll find people who truly fit your life, who understand many things that your best friend never could because both of you were the definition of opposites in every little thing. Opposite in personality, in childhoods, in mentality, etc. Everything, and now it’s time to walk different paths, and you’re the only one that knows that you can’t look back even if they try to follow. That it’s better for you both even though they’ll go on believing that you just grew apart without ever knowing that it was by choice, for their own sake. 

It’s hard, but when you finally have that feeling wash over you, you’ll realize that as hard as it is, it’s also freeing, and peaceful. Because it’s time to choose yourself than always choosing them.

[blueacademiablog]

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut

[90sbelly]

God just look at that JIGGLE!!!! Like seeing a fatty outgrow her clothes?......then I got a clip for you! Lots of love!

[autumnsunshine10]

The most horrible thing I’ve done Was hurt someone out of insecurity, Giving into petty jealousy or envy.

And I’m thoroughly relieved To have outgrown that version of me

[psyhorizonx]

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Getting told "you changed" like it is an accusation is one of the most disorienting feelings on the growth journey. But what if changing was exactly what you were supposed to do? This one is for everyone who outgrew something and got guilt tripped for it. You are not who you were. That is not a betrayal. That is the work paying off.

[moneymasteryhubonline]

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[keiaeverleigh]

It's sad seeing people you used to be close with and then part because you outgrew each other.

I think it's really sad that sometimes we see a certain friend we used to have earlier in life and instead of catching up, you just smile or walk past each other.

I mean, I used to know a lot about you. I used to know how your day went, or who do you like, your secrets..

But now.. we're like strangers with a memory that will be buried deep within.

It's really sad for sentimental people that you remember certain things about them and they don't even remember something about you.

This is why I try so hard not to get attached too much to friends now.

Like, she used to be my sister but now she's just a stranger with a piece of me she doesn't even remember she had.