Lynn Whitfield holding her Emmy after winning Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for “The Josephine Baker Story” at the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards (1991)
Dear Diary..
Two things I'm NOT doing.. Teaching no friend to be a friend.. & teaching a man to be a man. If it ain't in you by now, it never will be in you!
i used to think one of my friends was just “bad at texting.”
you know the type.
disappears for days.
replies three business weeks later with:
“sorry dude things got hectic”
constantly cancelling plans last minute.
always exhausted.
always “busy.”
after a while i stopped inviting him places as much because honestly it started feeling personal.
then one night he randomly showed up at my apartment at like 11 PM holding a plastic grocery bag full of medicine.
i said:
“are you sick??”
he goes:
“nah my dad is.”
turns out for almost a year he’d been driving back and forth helping take care of him while also working full time and trying to act normal around everybody.
and the part that messed me up was this:
he genuinely thought he was hiding it well.
like halfway through talking he actually apologized for “being weird lately.”
meanwhile this guy was surviving on four hours of sleep and stress-eating gas station food in hospital parking lots.
i think about that a lot now whenever someone suddenly starts seeming distant.
because sometimes people aren’t pulling away from you personally.
sometimes they’re just trying to survive something they don’t even know how to explain yet.
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