With Friends Like These...

I used to have a friend and I thought we were pretty good friends. We didn't hang out a lot individually, just the two of us. But there were countless times we would hang out with a big group or at house parties.  

A few years before the pandemic started, there was a stretch of time when she stopped doing a lot of the big group activities, stopped doing a lot of the parties and she would often complain that most nights it was just her and her dog sitting at home alone watching movies. So I started asking if she wanted company. I could come over, bring a few drinks, bring a few movies and just hang out m. She never took me up on the offer. Despite constantly complaining that she never got to do anything and no one ever called her to hang out.  She still didn't actually seem to want the company. Or at least maybe it was just my company she didn't care for? 

It wasn't long after that she moved out of state for work for the better part of a year before shutting it down and moving back home. Trying to make it in business by herself probably seemed a little too difficult. So she came back home and I naturally assumed we would start hanging out and talking again. That never happened. And it was probably a few months after she moved back where we had just stopped talking all together. I unfriended her off social media shortly after that. And that was probably a few months before the pandemic started. I have no idea where she's at now in life what she's doing with her herself anymore. But I do often wonder what it was that caused the distancing in the first place?  Odd since we were "friends," I thought, for right around 10 years in total.