I didn't just lose a friend; I lost a friend who invested so much in me and in shaping who i am. Since so much of my growth was tied to that bond, losing it makes me a stranger to myself. My foundation has been shaken so hard that I don’t know where I end and the memory begins...
You know that feeling when you look back at a decade and the clarity suddenly turns to ash? It is terrifying. I used to see my history in high definition, but now, it’s a ghost story I can’t quite remember.
t feels like I spent ten years building a home, brick by brick, only to wake up and find that not only is the building gone, but the ground it stood on has vanished. There was a life here. There was a truth here. And now, there is only a hollow echo where my identity used to be.