I… I think it’s over. I think I lost my friend.
Everything feels so strange. We met in 2013 at school and became best friends. We talked every day, a lot. Time passed, and we stayed very close… 2015, we were both in college, different courses, different schools, but still really close. We’d go to the movies together, play games together… then the pandemic came, I got depressed, stopped talking to him for a few months, but then I came back and everything was fine. And everything felt normal…
Now jumping to the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025… he started to change. He got a new job, started another college, and things became so strange. It felt like little by little we had less and less in common. On weekends he wouldn’t even reply to my messages, he’d go out with other friends, only reply on Monday, and he kept drifting away, drifting away… it got to the point where he disappeared for 14 days last year, saying he was very anxious with his phone and needed some time for himself… okay, he disappeared and then came back.
Now it’s 2026 and he’s completely disappeared. But this time it’s different. It feels like he disappeared only from me. I can’t understand it. He kept distancing himself, distancing himself… sometimes he would message me, send a meme or something like that… but now it’s been almost a month with no response from him at all. He still has me as a contact on WhatsApp. The other day he hadn’t been on Telegram for almost a month, but he logged in yesterday.
Everything is so different, so strange… I sent him a message this morning asking what was going on and, obviously, he didn’t reply. It all feels like ghosting. Even though he’s had anxiety issues in the past and has stepped away from his phone because of that, I don’t think that’s what’s happening now.
I’m really sad, honestly. Man… the friendship has become unrecognizable. It feels like he slowly turned into a different person. And now he just “disappears.” I don’t know… I miss him. I almost cried this morning. It’s been hard for me even to summarize and put all of this into words.