2026-05-24 11:29 UTC
today is a day that's kind of significant to me (not my birthday, but i don't want to give too much away by explaining). and i woke up to texts from both of my parents sending well-wishes.
our relationship is really damaged, and i'm not sure how i would have felt exactly if they hadn't messaged. but i'm tempted to say that it would have been a relief. this way, it just felt very suffocating. it was early still and i slept some more, and when i was done,
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@venetiana@mastodon.art 2026-05-24 11:32
there was also a text from my best friend, which was so, so lovely to read when waking up again. i'm not sure what i'm trying to say with this. i think one point is that the remnants of a relationship can hurt much more than the actual, active relationship did. the other thing probably is: please be there for your friends on the days that are of some kind of significance to them. in retrospect, the text i got from my friend wasn't anything fancy! but they'd thought of me. 💛