Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Aries season.
Make up a story. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.
Toni Morrison
Some friendships change because something happens between you, and some change because something happens inside you that makes the old way of being together feel like a costume you can no longer wear. You know which kind this is before you can explain it to yourself or anyone else. The knowing sits in your chest when you see their name on your phone, in the pause before you answer, in the way your voice sounds different when you do. The friendship is not ending, but the version of yourself that lived easily inside it is. The year ahead asks you to let that older self go without making the friend responsible for the loss, and to show up as who you are becoming even when it makes the conversation harder than it used to be.