Every relationship (blood or friends) goes through three phases:
- You are happy. You are your usual self. The relationship is good.
- When the relationship goes through patches, you choose to communicate. A lot about that relationship depends on how you communicate and how you respond. Repeat that multiple times over months and years, and the relationship could promote to point 1 or downgrade to point 3.
- When the other person stops responding to you. Neither positive, nor negative. They have accepted that the relationship is going to an unspoken, sometimes painful death. And everything that could be done was done. So you smile and let life flow. Whatever it brings.
Your goal in life is to be a good communicator, in a manner that even around people who are not in your life anymore, you can be who you are in number one. If life has destined things to end, end them with dignity. For them to end the way they do in point 3, is such a waste of a precious life (and perhaps a once precious relationship).
