For years, my best friend from high school was the person I could have told anything to. Four years after graduating, she started contacting me less and less, and the conversations we had became increasingly superficial.
without anything concrete having happened. At the beginning, I was very committed to finding out what had happened. I wrote letters, sought discussions – perhaps even forced them in her view. I gradually learned the reasons and
I found it hard to understand. This meant that whenever we saw each other in the same group of friends, the situation was tense and conversations were forced. I was sad and
uncomfortable. Years later, I played '34 Questions' with my partner. One of the questions was "What does friendship mean to you?" That's when it clicked for me.
and I realized for myself: friendship means lightness to me. Whether the situation is funny or sad, profound or difficult, friendship must always have lightness.
